Data privacy has been an important research topic in the security, theory and database communities in the last few decades. However, many existing studies have restrictive assumpt...
This demo presents Sindbad; a location-based social networking system. Sindbad supports three new services beyond traditional social networking services, namely, location-aware ne...
Mohamed Sarwat, Jie Bao 0003, Ahmed Eldawy, Justin...
The success of data-driven solutions to difficult problems, along with the dropping costs of storing and processing massive amounts of data, has led to growing interest in largesc...
The popularity of mobile social networking services (mSNSs) is propelling more and more businesses, especially those in retailing and marketing, into mobile and location-based for...
It is often highly valuable for organizations to have their data analyzed by external agents. However, any program that computes on potentially sensitive data risks leaking inform...
Computational experiments have become an integral part of the scientific method, but reproducing, archiving, and querying them is still a challenge. The first barrier to a wider...
We study the notion of regret ratio proposed in [19] to deal with multi-criteria decision making in database systems. The regret minimization query proposed in [19] was shown to h...
Danupon Nanongkai, Ashwin Lall, Atish Das Sarma, K...
Cloud computing has emerged as a promising environment capable of providing flexibility, scalability, elasticity, failover mechanisms, high availability, and other important feat...
The rise of smartphones equipped with various sensors has enabled personalization of various applications based on user contexts extracted from sensor readings. At the same time i...