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MDM
2010
Springer
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15 years 11 months ago
Query m-Invariance: Preventing Query Disclosures in Continuous Location-Based Services
Abstract—Location obfuscation using cloaking regions preserves location anonymity by hiding the true user among a set of other equally likely users. Furthermore, a cloaking regio...
Rinku Dewri, Indrakshi Ray, Indrajit Ray, Darrell ...
SYNTHESE
2010
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15 years 4 months ago
Measurement theory in linguistics
This paper presents a novel semantic analysis of unit names (like pound and meter) and gradable adjectives (like tall, short and happy), inspired by measurement theory (Krantz et a...
Galit Weidman Sassoon
ICTIR
2009
Springer
16 years 1 months ago
A New Measure of the Cluster Hypothesis
Abstract. We have found that the nearest neighbor (NN) test is an insufficient measure of the cluster hypothesis. The NN test is a local measure of the cluster hypothesis. Designer...
Mark D. Smucker, James Allan
IMC
2004
ACM
15 years 12 months ago
Strategies for sound internet measurement
Conducting an Internet measurement study in a sound fashion can be much more difficult than it might first appear. We present a number of strategies drawn from experiences for a...
Vern Paxson
METRICS
2003
IEEE
15 years 11 months ago
Metrology, Measurement and Metrics in Software Engineering
Up until recently software 'metrics' have been most often proposed as the quantitative tools of choice in software engineering, and the analysis of these had been most o...
Alain Abran, Asma Sellami, Witold Suryn