Privacy becomes a major concern for both customers and enterprises in today’s corporate marketing strategies, many research efforts have been put into developing new privacy-aware technologies. Among them, Hippocratic databases are one of the important mechanisms to guarantee the respect of...

Privacy becomes a major concern for both customers and enterprises in today's corporate marketing strategies, many research efforts have been put into developing new privacy-aware technologies. Among them, Hippocratic databases are one of the important mechanisms to guarantee the respect of...

[Abstract]: Privacy is today an important concern for both data providers and data users. Data generalization can provide signicant protection of an individual's privacy, which means the data value can be replaced by a less specic but semantically consistent value and the personal information...

Privacy has been acknowledged to be a critical requirement for many business environments. A variety of uncertainty and mutability poses challenges when sharing resources must happen in collaborative environment. Therefore, the definition of an efficient access control model, based on which...

Three new asymmetric photochromic diarylethenes bearing fluorine atoms at the ortho-, meta-, or para-position of one terminal phenyl group were synthesized, and their photochromism and kinetics of the photochromic cyclization/cycloreversion both in different solvents and in PMMA films were...

Construction of theme park has been launched since the early 1990s in Chengdu City, but ended up as a losing proposition after its short-term prosperity because of similar scale and theme with those in other cities. As more international well-known theme parks enter the market, theme parks in...

This paper makes a brief description of the definition and methods of data mining. It describes the characteristics of agricultural data (value delivery, specialization, spatio-temporal bidimensionality) and the status of application of data mining technology in agriculture.

The following sections are included:IntroductionNegotiation — The Process of Power Dependence, Social Influence, and Joint Problem SolvingPower and Influence DefinedSources of PowerPower in the Context of NegotiationThe Importance of Power AssessmentPower ImbalanceStrategies to Tackle Power...

This paper presents a new approach to modeling of heat transfer by ground heat exchangers, involving unsteady heat conduction in composite media together with complex geometry. Analytical solutions for continuous line and cylindrical-surface sources are developed based on Jaeger’s...