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2006
ACM
16 years 7 months ago
Communities from seed sets
Expanding a seed set into a larger community is a common procedure in link-based analysis. We show how to adapt recent results from theoretical computer science to expand a seed s...
Reid Andersen, Kevin J. Lang
MOBIHOC
2009
ACM
16 years 7 months ago
Fine-grained boundary recognition in wireless ad hoc and sensor networks by topological methods
Location-free boundary recognition is crucial and critical for many fundamental network functionalities in wireless ad hoc and sensor networks. Previous designs, often coarse-grai...
Dezun Dong, Yunhao Liu, Xiangke Liao
CHI
2006
ACM
16 years 7 months ago
Urbanhermes: social signaling with electronic fashion
Fashion signals are displayed to indicate access to information. Consistent, timely, and meaningful signal displays are only made possible if one is well-connected. While fashion ...
Christine M. Liu, Judith S. Donath
CHI
2004
ACM
16 years 7 months ago
Persistence matters: making the most of chat in tightly-coupled work
How much history of the dialogue should a chat client include? Some chat clients have minimized the dialogue history to deploy the space for other purposes. A theory of conversati...
Darren Gergle, David R. Millen, Robert E. Kraut, S...
ALT
2002
Springer
16 years 3 months ago
How to Achieve Minimax Expected Kullback-Leibler Distance from an Unknown Finite Distribution
Abstract. We consider a problem that is related to the “Universal Encoding Problem” from information theory. The basic goal is to find rules that map “partial information”...
Dietrich Braess, Jürgen Forster, Tomas Sauer,...