Abstract. We present the first private information retrieval (PIR) scheme which is both, deterministically correct and has poly-logarithmic communication complexity. Our PIR proto...
Recently the problem of dimensionality reduction (or, subspace learning) has received a lot of interests in many fields of information processing, including data mining, informati...
In this paper we combine two existing resource selection approaches, CORI and the decision-theoretic framework (DTF). The state-of-the-art system CORI belongs to the large group of...
Determining attribute correspondences is a difficult, time-consuming, knowledge-intensive part of database integration. We report on experiences with tools that identified candi...
As the amount of textual information available through the World Wide Web grows, there is a growing need for high-precision IR systems that enable a user to nd useful information ...
Mandar Mitra, Chris Buckley, Amit Singhal, Claire ...