Private information retrieval (PIR) enables a user to retrieve a data item from a database, replicated among one or more servers, while hiding the identity of the retrieved item. ...
In business-to-business e-commerce, traditional electronic data interchange (EDI) approaches such as UN/EDIFACT have been superseded by approaches like web services and ebXML. Nev...
This paper explores the issues involved in using symbolic metric algorithms for automatic speech recognition (ASR), via a structural representation of speech. This representation ...
This paper presents the design and implementation of a transaction service that complies with the WS-Coordination and WS-AtomicTransaction standards. Such service builds upon XAct...
Standard tabu search methods are based on the complete exploration of current solution neighborhood. However, for some problems with very large neighborhood or time-consuming eval...
Isabelle Devarenne, Hakim Mabed, Alexandre Caminad...