A Private Information Retrieval (PIR) protocol allows a database user, or client, to obtain information from a data- base in a manner that prevents the database from knowing which...
An approach to target-based image retrieval is described based on on-line rank-based learning. User feedback obtained via interaction with 2D image layouts provides qualitative co...
This paper describes a new approach, HIDER (HIerarchical DEcision Rules), for learning rules in continuous and discrete domains based on evolutive algorithms. The algorithm produce...
Users of a digital book library system typically interact with the system to search for books by querying on the metadata describing the books or to search for information in the p...
In this paper we present a general purpose solution to Web content perusal by means of mobile devices, named Social Context-Aware Browser. This is a novel approach for the informa...