The monopolist’s theory of optimal single-item auctions for agents with independent private values can be summarized by two statements. The first is from Myerson [8]: the optim...
We present a framework for automatically summarizing social group activity over time. The problem is important in understanding large scale online social networks, which have dive...
We propose DHCS, a method of distributed, hierarchical clustering and summarization for online data analysis and mining in sensor networks. Different from the acquisition and aggre...
This short paper is aimed to discuss the challenges for location-based services and proposes our framework, which makes it possible to obtain information from heterogeneous sources...
Parallel and distributed programming is conceptually harder to undertake and to understand than sequential programming, because a programmer often has to manage the coexistence an...