The ubiquity of smartphones and other location-aware hand-held devices has resulted in a
dramatic increase in popularity of location-based services (LBS) tailored to users' locations …

In an outsourced database service model, query assurance takes an important role among
well-known security issues. To the best of our knowledge, however, none of the existing …

Privacy protection is one of the fundamental security requirements for database outsourcing.
A major threat is information leakage from database access patterns generated by query …

How can Agnes trust a computation C occurring at Boris's computer? In particular, how can
Agnes can trust that C is occurring without Boris even being able to observe its internal …

Anonymity systems preserve the identities of users as they access Internet data sources. The
security of many such systems, such as Tor, relies on a model where the adversary does not …

Since the concept of private information retrieval (PIR) was first formalized by Chor et al.,
various constructions have been proposed with a common goal of reducing communication …

Digital forensics investigations aim to find evidence that helps confirm or disprove a
hypothesis about an alleged computer-based crime. However, the ease with which …

The effectiveness of prefabricated vertical drains (PVDs) in enhancing the stability of soft
soils during cyclic loading was investigated using triaxial cyclic loading tests. Both …

In an outsourced XML database service model, organizations rely upon the premises of
external service providers for the storage and retrieval management of their XML data …

Abstract Early works on Private Information Retrieval (PIR) focused on minimizing the
necessary communication overhead. They seemed to achieve this goal but at the expense …