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2009
ACM
16 years 2 months ago
A probabilistic model based approach for blended search
In this paper, we propose to model the blended search problem by assuming conditional dependencies among queries, VSEs and search results. The probability distributions of this mo...
Ning Liu, Jun Yan, Zheng Chen
EDBT
2009
ACM
118views Database» more  EDBT 2009»
16 years 2 months ago
Optimized union of non-disjoint distributed data sets
In a variety of applications, ranging from data integration to distributed query evaluation, there is a need to obtain sets of data items from several sources (peers) and compute ...
Itay Dar, Tova Milo, Elad Verbin
ICC
2009
IEEE
129views Communications» more  ICC 2009»
16 years 2 months ago
Random Access Protocols for WLANs Based on Mechanism Design
— In wireless local area networks (WLANs), quality of service (QoS) can be provided by mapping applications with different requirements (e.g., delay and throughput) into one of t...
Man Hon Cheung, Amir Hamed Mohsenian Rad, Vincent ...
IROS
2009
IEEE
195views Robotics» more  IROS 2009»
16 years 2 months ago
Appearance contrast for fast, robust trail-following
— We describe a framework for finding and tracking “trails” for autonomous outdoor robot navigation. Through a combination of visual cues and ladar-derived structural inform...
Christopher Rasmussen, Yan Lu, Mehmet Kocamaz
LOCA
2009
Springer
16 years 1 months ago
Location Diversity: Enhanced Privacy Protection in Location Based Services
Abstract. Location-based Services are emerging as popular applications in pervasive computing. Spatial k-anonymity is used in Locationbased Services to protect privacy, by hiding t...
Mingqiang Xue, Panos Kalnis, Hung Keng Pung