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...
Mobile smartphone users frequently need to search for nearby points of interest from a location based service, but in a way that preserves the privacy of the users' locations...
Femi G. Olumofin, Piotr K. Tysowski, Ian Goldberg,...
Reluctance of data owners to share their possibly confidential or proprietary data with others who own related databases is a serious impediment to conducting a mutually beneficia...
Ashish P. Sanil, Alan F. Karr, Xiaodong Lin, Jerom...
As a new public key primitive, attribute-based encryption (ABE) is envisioned to be a promising tool for implementing fine-grained access control. To further address the concern o...
Compared to all emerging issues, privacy is probably the most prominent concern when it comes to judging the effects of a wide spread deployment of ubiquitous computing. On one ha...