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AINA
2008
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
Towards a Usenet-Like Discussion System for Users of Disconnected MANETs
Applications that rely on the publish-subscribe model (such as those dedicated to news or event distribution) require a communication model whereby information can flow towards a...
Julien Haillot, Frédéric Guidec
MOBISYS
2011
ACM
13 years 28 days ago
Exploiting FM radio data system for adaptive clock calibration in sensor networks
Clock synchronization is critical for Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) due to the need of inter-node coordination and collaborative information processing. Although many message pa...
Liqun Li, Guoliang Xing, Limin Sun, Wei Huangfu, R...
CCS
2010
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
In search of an anonymous and secure lookup: attacks on structured peer-to-peer anonymous communication systems
The ability to locate random relays is a key challenge for peer-to-peer (P2P) anonymous communication systems. Earlier attempts like Salsa and AP3 used distributed hash table look...
Qiyan Wang, Prateek Mittal, Nikita Borisov
ESWS
2006
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
PowerAqua: Fishing the Semantic Web
The Semantic Web (SW) offers an opportunity to develop novel, sophisticated forms of question answering (QA). Specifically, the availability of distributed semantic markup on a lar...
Vanessa Lopez, Enrico Motta, Victoria S. Uren
SIGIR
2009
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
Effective query expansion for federated search
While query expansion techniques have been shown to improve retrieval performance in a centralized setting, they have not been well studied in a federated setting. In this paper, ...
Milad Shokouhi, Leif Azzopardi, Paul Thomas