Recent advances in computer power, network bandwidth, information storage, and multimedia/signal processing techniques have led to a proliferation of multimedia data. As a result,...
In e-commerce, the protection of user privacy from a server was not considered feasible until the private information retrieval (PIR) problem was stated recently. A PIR protocol a...
Search engines are commercial entities that require revenue to survive. The most prevalent revenue stream for search engines is sponsored search, where content providers have sear...
Despite the many research efforts invested recently in peerto-peer search engines, none of the proposed system has reached the level of quality and efficiency of their centralized...
Pascal Felber, Toan Luu, Martin Rajman, Etienne Ri...
Music theme annotations would be really beneficial for supporting retrieval, but are often neglected by users while annotating. Thus, in order to support users in tagging and to f...