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WWW
2010
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
Not so creepy crawler: easy crawler generation with standard xml queries
Web crawlers are increasingly used for focused tasks such as the extraction of data from Wikipedia or the analysis of social networks like last.fm. In these cases, pages are far m...
Franziska von dem Bussche, Klara A. Weiand, Benedi...
EMSOFT
2005
Springer
14 years 7 days ago
HAIL: a language for easy and correct device access
It is difficult to write device drivers. One factor is that writing low-level code for accessing devices and manipulating their registers is tedious and error-prone. For many syst...
Jun Sun 0002, Wanghong Yuan, Mahesh Kallahalla, Na...
SIGMOD
2012
ACM
220views Database» more  SIGMOD 2012»
11 years 9 months ago
GUPT: privacy preserving data analysis made easy
It is often highly valuable for organizations to have their data analyzed by external agents. However, any program that computes on potentially sensitive data risks leaking inform...
Prashanth Mohan, Abhradeep Thakurta, Elaine Shi, D...
SIGECOM
2003
ACM
141views ECommerce» more  SIGECOM 2003»
13 years 12 months ago
Automated mechanism design for a self-interested designer
Often, an outcome must be chosen on the basis of the preferences reported by a group of agents. The key difficulty is that the agents may report their preferences insincerely to m...
Vincent Conitzer, Tuomas Sandholm
ACMICEC
2003
ACM
172views ECommerce» more  ACMICEC 2003»
13 years 12 months ago
Automated mechanism design: complexity results stemming from the single-agent setting
The aggregation of conflicting preferences is a central problem in multiagent systems. The key difficulty is that the agents may report their preferences insincerely. Mechanism ...
Vincent Conitzer, Tuomas Sandholm