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GAMESEC
2011
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14 years 6 months ago
Collaborative Location Privacy with Rational Users
Recent smartphones incorporate embedded GPS devices that enable users to obtain geographic information about their surroundings by providing a location-based service (LBS) with the...
Francisco Santos, Mathias Humbert, Reza Shokri, Je...
EUROMICRO
2000
IEEE
15 years 11 months ago
A Universal Framework for Managing Metadata in the Distributed Dragon Slayer System
In the multimedia field, metadata are becoming increasingly important for efficiently cataloguing the abundant flood of information. (Metadata are data on information structure...
Horst Wedde, Jens-Oliver P. Siepmann
SEMWEB
2004
Springer
16 years 3 days ago
An Initial Investigation into Querying an Untrustworthy and Inconsistent Web
The Semantic Web is bound to be untrustworthy and inconsistent. In this paper, we present an initial approach for obtaining useful information in such an environment. In particular...
Yuanbo Guo, Jeff Heflin
SIGIR
2003
ACM
16 years 16 hour ago
SETS: search enhanced by topic segmentation
We present SETS, an architecture for efficient search in peer-to-peer networks, building upon ideas drawn from machine learning and social network theory. The key idea is to arran...
Mayank Bawa, Gurmeet Singh Manku, Prabhakar Raghav...
AAAI
2008
15 years 9 months ago
Extracting Relevant Snippets for Web Navigation
Search engines present fix-length passages from documents ranked by relevance against the query. In this paper, we present and compare novel, language-model based methods for extr...
Qing Li, K. Selçuk Candan, Qi Yan