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ICCCI
2010
Springer
15 years 5 months ago
Strategic Health Information Management and Forecast: The Birdwatching Approach
Abstract. To facilitate communication and the exchange of information between patients, nurses, lab technicians, health insurers, physicians, policy makers, and existing knowledge-...
Arash Shaban-Nejad, Volker Haarslev
INFOCOM
2010
IEEE
15 years 5 months ago
Sybil Attacks Against Mobile Users: Friends and Foes to the Rescue
—Collaborative applications for co-located mobile users can be severely disrupted by a sybil attack to the point of being unusable. Existing decentralized defences have largely b...
Daniele Quercia, Stephen Hailes
PVLDB
2010
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15 years 5 months ago
x-RDF-3X: Fast Querying, High Update Rates, and Consistency for RDF Databases
The RDF data model is gaining importance for applications in computational biology, knowledge sharing, and social communities. Recent work on RDF engines has focused on scalable p...
Thomas Neumann, Gerhard Weikum
ASSETS
2010
ACM
15 years 4 months ago
Iwalk: a lightweight navigation system for low-vision users
Smart phones typically support a range of GPS-enabled navigation services. However, most navigation services on smart phones are of limited use to people with visual disabilities....
Amanda J. Stent, Shiri Azenkot, Ben Stern
SMC
2010
IEEE
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15 years 4 months ago
A cooperative approach for handshake detection based on body sensor networks
The handshake gesture is an important part of the social etiquette in many cultures. It lies at the core of many human interactions, either in formal or informal settings: exchangi...
Antonio Augimeri, Giancarlo Fortino, Manoj R. Rege...