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CORR
2010
Springer
156views Education» more  CORR 2010»
13 years 7 months ago
On the bias of BFS
Abstract--Breadth First Search (BFS) and other graph traversal techniques are widely used for measuring large unknown graphs, such as online social networks. It has been empiricall...
Maciej Kurant, Athina Markopoulou, Patrick Thiran
SIGECOM
2009
ACM
117views ECommerce» more  SIGECOM 2009»
14 years 2 months ago
Sybilproof transitive trust protocols
We study protocols to enable one user (the principal) to make potentially profitable but risky interactions with another user (the agent), in the absence of direct trust between ...
Paul Resnick, Rahul Sami
ICDE
2009
IEEE
180views Database» more  ICDE 2009»
14 years 9 months ago
Outsourcing Search Services on Private Spatial Data
Social networking and content sharing service providers, e.g., Facebook and Google Maps, enable their users to upload and share a variety of user-generated content, including locat...
Man Lung Yiu, Gabriel Ghinita, Christian S. Jensen...
CHI
2009
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Resilience through technology adoption: merging the old and the new in Iraq
Little attention has been given to how citizens use technology to be resilient when their country is at war. We report on an ethnographic interview study of how technology was ado...
Gloria Mark, Ban Al-Ani, Bryan Semaan
FQAS
2009
Springer
157views Database» more  FQAS 2009»
14 years 2 months ago
On Fuzzy vs. Metric Similarity Search in Complex Databases
Abstract. The task of similarity search is widely used in various areas of computing, including multimedia databases, data mining, bioinformatics, social networks, etc. For a long ...
Alan Eckhardt, Tomás Skopal, Peter Vojt&aac...