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MDM
2010
Springer
152views Communications» more  MDM 2010»
16 years 1 days ago
Finding One-Of Probably Nearest Neighbors with Minimum Location Updates
—Location information is necessarily uncertain when objects are constantly moving. The cost can be high to maintain precise locations at the application server for all the object...
Mitzi McCarthy, Xiaoyang Sean Wang, Zhen He
MM
2009
ACM
203views Multimedia» more  MM 2009»
15 years 12 months ago
Distance metric learning from uncertain side information with application to automated photo tagging
Automated photo tagging is essential to make massive unlabeled photos searchable by text search engines. Conventional image annotation approaches, though working reasonably well o...
Lei Wu, Steven C. H. Hoi, Rong Jin, Jianke Zhu, Ne...
CRYPTO
2000
Springer
110views Cryptology» more  CRYPTO 2000»
15 years 11 months ago
Parallel Reducibility for Information-Theoretically Secure Computation
Secure Function Evaluation (SFE) protocols are very hard to design, and reducibility has been recognized as a highly desirable property of SFE protocols. Informally speaking, reduc...
Yevgeniy Dodis, Silvio Micali
AGENTS
1999
Springer
15 years 11 months ago
Exception Handling in Agent Systems
A critical challenge to creating effective agent-based systems is allowing them to operate effectively when the operating environment is complex, dynamic, and error-prone. In this...
Mark Klein, Chrysanthos Dellarocas
ICS
1999
Tsinghua U.
15 years 11 months ago
Fast cluster failover using virtual memory-mapped communication
This paper proposes a novel way to use virtual memorymapped communication (VMMC) to reduce the failover time on clusters. With the VMMC model, applications’ virtual address spac...
Yuanyuan Zhou, Peter M. Chen, Kai Li