• A survey of advanced encryption for database security: primitives, schemes, and attacks 

  Ganesh, Buvana; Palmieri, Paolo (Springer Nature, 2020-12)

  The use of traditional encryption techniques in Database Management Systems is limited, as encrypting data within the database can prevent basic functionalities such as ordering and searching. Advanced encryption techniques ...
• Navigation-by-preference: A new conversational recommender with preference-based feedback 

  Rana, Arpit; Bridge, Derek G. (Association for Computing Machinery, ACM, 2020-03-17)

  We present Navigation-by-Preference, n-by-p, a new conversational recommender that uses what the literature calls preference-based feedback. Given a seed item, the recommender helps the user navigate through item space to ...
• Deep reinforcement learning and randomized blending for control under novel disturbances 

  Sohége, Yves; Provan, Gregory; Quinones-Grueiro, Marcos; Biswas, Gautam (2020-07)

  Enabling autonomous vehicles to maneuver in novel scenarios is a key unsolved problem. A well-known approach, Weighted Multiple Model Adaptive Control (WMMAC), uses a set of pretuned controllers and combines their control ...
• Room for one more? - Introducing artificial commensal companions 

  Mancini, Maurizio; Niewiadomski, Radoslaw; Huisman, Gijs; Bruijnes, Merijn; Gallagher, Conor Patrick (Association for Computing Machinery, ACM, 2020-04)

  Commensality is defined as "a social group that eats together" and eating in a commensality setting has a number of positive effects on humans. In this paper, we discuss how HCI and technology in general can be exploited ...
• Impression detection and management using an embodied conversational agent 

  Wang, Chen; Biancardi, Beatrice; Mancini, Maurizio; Cafaro, Angelo; Pelachaud, Catherine; Pun, Thierry; Chanel, Guillaume (Springer, 2020-07-10)

  Embodied Conversational Agents (ECAs) are a promising medium for human-computer interaction, since they are capable of engaging users in real-time face-to-face interaction [1, 2]. Users’ formed impressions of an ECA (e.g. ...

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