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HICSS
1999
IEEE
115views Biometrics» more  HICSS 1999»
14 years 29 days ago
Focusing on Mobility
In this paper, we motivate the importance of the field of mobile computing and survey current practical and formal approaches. We argue that the existing formalisms are not suffic...
Klaus Bergner, Radu Grosu, Andreas Rausch, Alexand...
MM
2006
ACM
157views Multimedia» more  MM 2006»
14 years 2 months ago
Cyborglogging with camera phones: steps toward equiveillance
We present “equiveillance” as a conceptual framework for understanding the balance between surveillance and sousveillance. In addition to this conceptual framework we also pre...
Steve Mann, James Fung, Raymond Lo
ACSC
2007
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
Periodical Payment Model Using Restricted Proxy Certificates
In this paper we shall introduce a new electronic payment concept based on the popular direct debit payment model, entitled periodical payments. The direct debit model currently i...
Grigori Goldman
BMCBI
2007
233views more  BMCBI 2007»
13 years 8 months ago
160-fold acceleration of the Smith-Waterman algorithm using a field programmable gate array (FPGA)
Background: To infer homology and subsequently gene function, the Smith-Waterman (SW) algorithm is used to find the optimal local alignment between two sequences. When searching s...
Isaac T. S. Li, Warren Shum, Kevin Truong
CORR
2006
Springer
160views Education» more  CORR 2006»
13 years 8 months ago
Frugality ratios and improved truthful mechanisms for vertex cover
In set-system auctions, there are several overlapping teams of agents, and a task that can be completed by any of these teams. The auctioneer's goal is to hire a team and pay...
Edith Elkind, Leslie Ann Goldberg, Paul W. Goldber...