In many contexts, one is confronted with the problem of extracting information from large amounts of different types soft data (e.g., text) and hard data (from e.g., physics-based...
Thanuka Wickramarathne, Kamal Premaratne, Manohar ...
Location-based services have attracted the attention of important research in the field of mobile computing. Specifically, different mechanisms have been proposed to process loc...
Social Networking is one of the major technological phenomena of the Web 2.0, with hundreds of millions of people participating. Social networks enable a form of self expression f...
Anna Cinzia Squicciarini, Mohamed Shehab, Federica...
We discuss the use of social networks in implementing viral marketing strategies. While influence maximization has been studied in this context (see Chapter 24 of [10]), we study ...
Jason D. Hartline, Vahab S. Mirrokni, Mukund Sunda...
We consider the problem of indexing high-dimensional data for answering (approximate) similarity-search queries. Similarity indexes prove to be important in a wide variety of sett...