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...
Abstract. Much of the information on the web is indeed dynamic content provided through linkups with databases. However, due to heterogeneity of databases, it is difficult to provi...
Jeong-Oog Lee, Myeong-Cheol Ko, Jinsoo Kim, Chang-...
This paper reports on the user-centered design methodology and techniques used for the elicitation of user requirements and how these requirements informed the first phase of the ...
Preben Hansen, Daniela Petrelli, Jussi Karlgren, M...
Abstract. Geographic Information Retrieval (GIR) is a specialized Information Retrieval (IR) branch that deals with information related to geographical locations. Traditional IR en...
In this paper we analyze the Web coverage of three search engines, Google, Yahoo and MSN. We conducted a 15 month study collecting 15,770 Web content or information pages linked f...
Yang Sok Kim, Byeong Ho Kang, Paul Compton, Hirosh...