Time synchronization is necessary in many distributed systems, but achieving synchronization in sensornets, which combine stringent precision requirements with severe resource con...
Jeremy Elson, Richard M. Karp, Christos H. Papadim...
—The booming industry of location-based services has accumulated a huge collection of users’ location trajectories of driving, cycling, hiking, etc. In this work, we investigat...
Influence is a complex and subtle force that governs the dynamics of social networks as well as the behaviors of involved users. Understanding influence can benefit various applic...
Lu Liu, Jie Tang, Jiawei Han, Meng Jiang, Shiqiang...
This paper provides an overview of MediaDART, a framework for building online services for distributing and sharing digital media. Inspired by the participative model of Web 2.0, ...
Today, a number of algorithms exist for constructing tag hierarchies from social tagging data. While these algorithms were designed with ontological goals in mind, we know very li...