Wide-area distribution raises significant performance problems for traditional query processing techniques as data access becomes less predictable due to link congestion, load imb...
Abstract—With rising concerns on user privacy over the Internet, anonymous communication systems that hide the identity of a participant from its partner or third parties are hig...
—With the popularity of voting systems in cyberspace, there are growing evidence that the current voting systems can be manipulated by fake votes. This problem has attracted many...
Qinyuan Feng, Yan Lindsay Sun, Ling Liu, Yafei Yan...
Despite increasing popularity, Location-based Services (LBS) (e.g., searching nearby points-of-interest on map) on mobile handheld devices have been subject to major privacy conce...
Most software engineering techniques that deal with software products customization are based on anticipation: The software designer has to foresee, somehow, the future needs for ...