Personalized search is a promising way to better serve different users' information needs. Search history is one of the major information sources for search personalization. ...
In this paper we propose an access control model for use by a trusted middleware infrastructure, which is part of an architecture that supports the operation of Location Based Serv...
"The state of information security as a whole is a disaster, a train wreck". This view is given by Forte and Power (2007) describing the state of information security to...
Hennie A. Kruger, Tjaart Steyn, Lynette Drevin, Da...
Generating query-biased summaries can take up a large part of the response time of interactive information retrieval (IIR) systems. This paper proposes to use document titles as a...
— We describe the development and testing of a metaheuristic procedure, based on the scatter search methodology, for the problem of approximating the efficient frontier of nonlin...