GPS-enabled mobile devices are a quickly growing market and users are starting to share their location information with each other through services such as Google Latitude. Locati...
-- The MapReduce programming model, introduced by Google, has become popular over the past few years as a mechanism for processing large amounts of data, using sharednothing parall...
Sriram Krishnan, Chaitanya K. Baru, Christopher J....
—MapReduce is a data-driven programming model proposed by Google in 2004 which is especially well suited for distributed data analytics applications. We consider the management o...
Jorda Polo, David Carrera, Yolanda Becerra, Malgor...
A long-standing goal of AI is the development of intelligent workstation-based personal agents to assist users in their daily lives. A key impediment to this goal is the unrealist...
Tom M. Mitchell, Sophie H. Wang, Yifen Huang, Adam...
We address issues related to privacy protection in location-based services (LBS). Most existing research in this field either requires a trusted third-party (anonymizer) or uses ...
Aniket Pingley, Wei Yu, Nan Zhang 0004, Xinwen Fu,...