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WPES
2004
ACM
15 years 12 months ago
Private collaborative forecasting and benchmarking
Suppose a number of hospitals in a geographic area want to learn how their own heart-surgery unit is doing compared with the others in terms of mortality rates, subsequent complic...
Mikhail J. Atallah, Marina Bykova, Jiangtao Li, Ke...
SIGMOD
2009
ACM
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16 years 6 months ago
Asynchronous view maintenance for VLSD databases
The query models of the recent generation of very large scale distributed (VLSD) shared-nothing data storage systems, including our own PNUTS and others (e.g. BigTable, Dynamo, Ca...
Parag Agrawal, Adam Silberstein, Brian F. Cooper, ...
ICDCS
2011
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
E-Shadow: Lubricating Social Interaction Using Mobile Phones
—In this paper, we propose E-Shadow, a distributed mobile phone-based local social networking system. E-Shadow has two main components: (1) Local profiles. They enable EShadow u...
Jin Teng, Boying Zhang, Xinfeng Li, Xiaole Bai, Do...
NIPS
2007
15 years 7 months ago
Bayesian Inference for Spiking Neuron Models with a Sparsity Prior
Generalized linear models are the most commonly used tools to describe the stimulus selectivity of sensory neurons. Here we present a Bayesian treatment of such models. Using the ...
Sebastian Gerwinn, Jakob Macke, Matthias Seeger, M...
FLAIRS
2006
15 years 7 months ago
Agile Sensor Networks: Adaptive Coverage via Mobile Nodes
Advances in sensing and communication technology make sensor networks a convenient and cost effective tool for collecting data in hard to reach and hazardous areas Increasingly, s...
Swapna Ghanekar, Fatma Mili, Imad Elhajj