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MOBIHOC
2009
ACM
14 years 9 months ago
Secure multidimensional range queries in sensor networks
Most future large-scale sensor networks are expected to follow a two-tier architecture which consists of resource-rich master nodes at the upper tier and resource-poor sensor node...
Rui Zhang, Jing Shi, Yanchao Zhang
WSDM
2009
ACM
114views Data Mining» more  WSDM 2009»
14 years 3 months ago
Wikipedia pages as entry points for book search
A lot of the world’s knowledge is stored in books, which, as a result of recent mass-digitisation efforts, are increasingly available online. Search engines, such as Google Book...
Marijn Koolen, Gabriella Kazai, Nick Craswell
SIGMOD
2008
ACM
210views Database» more  SIGMOD 2008»
14 years 9 months ago
Private queries in location based services: anonymizers are not necessary
Mobile devices equipped with positioning capabilities (e.g., GPS) can ask location-dependent queries to Location Based Services (LBS). To protect privacy, the user location must n...
Gabriel Ghinita, Panos Kalnis, Ali Khoshgozaran, C...
GIR
2006
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
Relevance Ranking for Geographic IR
In this paper, we introduce a geographic similarity operator that computes the relatedness between two geographic places and describe how it is combined with textual ranking. The ...
Leonardo Andrade, Mário J. Silva
TREC
2001
13 years 10 months ago
Question Answering: CNLP at the TREC-10 Question Answering Track
This paper describes the retrieval experiments for the main task and list task of the TREC-10 questionanswering track. The question answering system described automatically finds ...
Jiangping Chen, Anne Diekema, Mary D. Taffet, Nanc...