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CHI
2006
ACM
16 years 6 months ago
Putting people in their place: an anonymous and privacy-sensitive approach to collecting sensed data in location-based applicati
The emergence of location-based computing promises new and compelling applications, but raises very real privacy risks. Existing approaches to privacy generally treat people as th...
Karen P. Tang, Pedram Keyani, James Fogarty, Jason...
SIGMOD
2008
ACM
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16 years 6 months ago
Mining relationships among interval-based events for classification
Existing temporal pattern mining assumes that events do not have any duration. However, events in many real world applications have durations, and the relationships among these ev...
Dhaval Patel, Wynne Hsu, Mong-Li Lee
ICFP
2005
ACM
16 years 6 months ago
An expressive language of signatures
Current languages allow a programmer to describe an interface only by enumerating its parts, possibly including other interfaces wholesale. Such languages cannot express relations...
Norman Ramsey, Kathleen Fisher, Paul Govereau
ICDE
2009
IEEE
155views Database» more  ICDE 2009»
16 years 1 months ago
SPROUT: Lazy vs. Eager Query Plans for Tuple-Independent Probabilistic Databases
— A paramount challenge in probabilistic databases is the scalable computation of confidences of tuples in query results. This paper introduces an efficient secondary-storage o...
Dan Olteanu, Jiewen Huang, Christoph Koch
FOCS
2009
IEEE
16 years 1 months ago
Local Graph Partitions for Approximation and Testing
—We introduce a new tool for approximation and testing algorithms called partitioning oracles. We develop methods for constructing them for any class of bounded-degree graphs wit...
Avinatan Hassidim, Jonathan A. Kelner, Huy N. Nguy...