The Internet and the growth of Information Technology (IT) and their enhanced capabilities to collect personal information have given rise to many privacy issues. Unauthorized access of personal information may result in identity theft, stalking, harassment, and other invasions …
The Lipschitz property is a fundamental property of functions with many applications in mathematics and computer science. Intuitively, a function is Lipschitz if it is not too sensitive to small changes in its inputs. In various applications, it is important (often crucial) that…
Mobile devices, smartphones and tablets, have become an integral part of everyday life, allowing users to be connected and perform all sorts of computing tasks. Despite being quite powerful, smartphones and tablets are not as capable as desktops and laptops due to their small fo…
The growth of the Internet has opened up tremendous opportunities for cooperative computations where the results depend on the private data inputs of distributed participating parties. In most cases, such computations are performed by multiple mutually untrusting parties. This h…