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PVLDB
2010
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15 years 5 months ago
TimeTrails: A System for Exploring Spatio-Temporal Information in Documents
Spatial and temporal data have become ubiquitous in many application domains such as the Geosciences or life sciences. Sophisticated database management systems are employed to ma...
Jannik Strötgen, Michael Gertz
INFOCOM
2011
IEEE
14 years 10 months ago
A distributed and privacy preserving algorithm for identifying information hubs in social networks
—This paper addresses the problem of identifying the top-k information hubs in a social network. Identifying topk information hubs is crucial for many applications such as advert...
Muhammad Usman Ilyas, Muhammad Zubair Shafiq, Alex...
JCDL
2009
ACM
121views Education» more  JCDL 2009»
16 years 1 months ago
Improving historical research by linking digital library information to a global genealogical database
Journals, letters, and other writings are of great value to historians and those who research their own family history; however, it can be difficult to find writings by specific...
Douglas J. Kennard, William B. Lund, Bryan S. Mors...
CIKM
1997
Springer
15 years 10 months ago
The Need for Metrics in Visual Information Analysis
CT This paper explores several methods for visualizing the thematic content of large document collections. As opposed to traditional query-driven document retrieval, these methods ...
Nancy Miller, Elizabeth G. Hetzler, Grant Nakamura...
EDBT
2006
ACM
118views Database» more  EDBT 2006»
16 years 6 months ago
On Honesty in Sovereign Information Sharing
Abstract. We study the following problem in a sovereign informationsharing setting: How to ensure that the individual participants, driven solely by self-interest, will behave hone...
Rakesh Agrawal, Evimaria Terzi