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SIGCOMM
2010
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
Trust no one: a decentralized matching service for privacy in location based services
We propose a new approach to ensure privacy in location based services, without requiring any support from a"trusted" entity. We observe that users of location based ser...
Sharad Jaiswal, Animesh Nandi
ICPP
2006
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
Improving Spatial Reuse with Collision-Aware DCF in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks
—Carrier sensing is a medium access method widely adopted in wireless communication to protect data transfers from interference. For example, Distributed Coordination Function (D...
Lubo Song, Chansu Yu
FLAIRS
2003
14 years 9 days ago
Advantages of Brahms for Specifying and Implementing a Multiagent Human-Robotic Exploration System
We have developed a model-based, distributed architecture that integrates diverse components in a system designed for lunar and planetary surface operations: an astronaut’s spac...
William J. Clancey, Maarten Sierhuis, Charis Kaski...
JCB
2008
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13 years 11 months ago
Statistics of Random Protein Superpositions: p-Values for Pairwise Structure Alignment
Quantification of statistical significance is essential for the interpretation of protein structural similarity. To address this, a random model for protein structure comparison w...
James O. Wrabl, Nick V. Grishin
PPOPP
2010
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
Analyzing lock contention in multithreaded applications
Many programs exploit shared-memory parallelism using multithreading. Threaded codes typically use locks to coordinate access to shared data. In many cases, contention for locks r...
Nathan R. Tallent, John M. Mellor-Crummey, Allan P...