In a digital library, book search is one of the most important information services. However,
with the rapid development of network technologies such as cloud computing, the server …

Article 5 (1)(c) of the European Union's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)
requires that" personal data shall be [...] adequate, relevant, and limited to what is necessary …

Personalized web search (PWS) has demonstrated its effectiveness in improving the quality
of various search services on the Internet. However, evidences show that users' reluctance …

A key driver for next generation web information retrieval systems is becoming the degree to
which a user's search and presentation experience is adapted to individual user properties …

Purpose First, the authors analyze the key problems faced by the protection of digital library
readers' data privacy and behavior privacy. Second, the authors introduce the characteristics …

Personalized recommendation has demonstrated its effectiveness in improving the problem
of information overload on the Internet. However, evidences show that due to the concerns …

Personalized search returns each user more accurate results by collecting the user's
historical search behaviors to infer her interests and query intents. However, it brings the risk …

Online service providers gather vast amounts of data to build user profiles. Such profiles
improve service quality through personalization, but may also intrude on user privacy and …

Online service platforms (OSPs), such as search engines, news-websites, ad-providers, etc.,
serve highly personalized content to the user, based on the profile extracted from her history …

Purpose The problem of privacy protection in digital libraries is causing people to have
increasingly extensive concerns. This study aims to design an approach to protect the …