Anonymous exchange of data has a strong demand in many scenarios. With the
development of IoT and wireless networks, plenty of smart devices are interconnected …

Heavy tails–extreme events or values more common than expected–emerge everywhere:
the economy, natural events, and social and information networks are just a few examples …

The social Internet of things (SIoT) is one of the emerging paradigms that can address the
practical problems (eg, massive object-to-object interconnection, service discovery, and …

Abstract Background The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) quickly controlled the spread of
SARS-CoV-2 by implementing several non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs), including …

These lecture notes focus on the recent advancements in neural information retrieval, with
particular emphasis on the systems and models exploiting transformer networks. These …

Dimension governs dynamical processes on networks. The social and technological
networks which we encounter in everyday life span a wide range of dimensions, but studies …

The approximate nearest neighbor (ANN) search in high-dimensional space offers a wide
spectrum of applications across many domains such as database, machine learning …

Abstract Maximum Inner Product Search (MIPS) plays an important role in many applications
ranging from information retrieval, recommender systems to natural language processing …

Neighborhood effects have an important role in evacuation decision-making by a family.
Owing to peer influence, neighbors evacuating can motivate a family to evacuate …

In this work, we introduce the Gulliver multi-party computation model (GMPC). The GMPC
model considers a single highly powerful party, called the server or Gulliver, that is …