Abstract Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) lays a new paradigm for the concept of Industry
4.0 and paves an insight for new industrial era. Nowadays smart machines and smart …

Medical data widely exist in the hospital and personal life, usually across institutions and
regions. They have essential diagnostic value and therapeutic significance. The disclosure …

Cyber–physical system (CPS) provides a foundation for the Industrial Internet of Things
(IIoT) that interconnects all types of devices. The integration of CPS with IIoT generates the …

Spatial keyword queries are attractive techniques that have been widely deployed in real-life
applications in recent years, such as social networks and location-based services. However …

With the rise of neural network, deep learning technology is more and more widely used in
various fields. Federated learning is one of the training types in deep learning. In federated …

With the rapid development of geographic location technology and the explosive growth of
data, a large amount of spatio-textual data is outsourced to the cloud server to reduce the …

With the widespread popularity of mobile devices and geolocation-related services, spatial
keyword data has exploded in recent years. As an application, people are accustomed to …

Searchable symmetric encryption (SSE) provides an effective way to search encrypted data
stored on untrusted servers. When the server is not trusted, it is indispensable to verify the …

With the rapid advancement in medical imaging techniques, Content-Based (medical) Image
Retrieval (CBIR), which can assist in disease diagnosis, has gained much attention in both …

With the development of various applications of blockchain, blockchain-assisted searchable
encryption technology has received wide attention as it can eliminate misbehaviours of …