Increasing global competition has led to massive outsourcing of manufacturing businesses.
Such outsourcing practices require effective collaborations between focal manufacturers …

Recommendation systems and content-filtering approaches based on annotations and
ratings essentially rely on users expressing their preferences and interests through their …

Personalized information systems are information-filtering systems that endeavor to tailor
information-exchange functionality to the specific interests of their users. The ability of these …

We present a mathematical formulation for the optimization of query forgery for private
information retrieval, in the sense that the privacy risk is minimized for a given traffic and …

Recently, the revolution of 5G networks has promoted a wide application of wireless
technology, and then followed with the prosperity of Location-Based Service (LBS) …

Vehicular ad hoc networks allow vehicles to share their information for the safety and
efficiency of traffic purposes. However, information sharing can threaten the driver's privacy …

We address the problem of query profile obfuscation by means of partial query exchanges
between two users, in order for their profiles of interest to appear distorted to the information …

The increasing use of mobile devices, along with advances in telecommunication systems,
increased the popularity of Location-Based Services (LBSs). In LBSs, users share their exact …

The risk of privacy disclosure in mobile commerce has received increasing attention
worldwide. Although many papers related to information privacy and privacy-preserving …

The recent deployment of smart grids promises to bring numerous advantages in terms of
energy consumption reduction in both homes and businesses. A more transparent and …