Category: Java

Supporting Privacy Protection in Personalized Web Search

Supporting Privacy Protection in Personalized Web Search Personalized web search (PWS) has demonstrated its effectiveness in improving the quality of varioussearch services on the Internet. However, evidences show that users’ reluctance to disclose their private information during search has become a major barrier for the wide proliferation of PWS. We study privacy protection in PWS applications that model user preferences as hierarchical user profiles. […]


Security Evaluation of Pattern Classifiers under Attack

Security Evaluation of Pattern Classifiers under Attack Pattern classification systems are commonly used in adversarial applications, like biometric authentication, network intrusion detection, and spam filtering, in which data can be purposely manipulated by humans to undermine their operation. As this adversarial scenario is not taken into account by classical design methods, pattern classification systems may exhibit vulnerabilities, whose […]