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FIRSTMONDAY
2010
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15 years 2 months ago
Bubbles, gullibility, and other challenges for economics, psychology, sociology, and information sciences
Abstract. Gullibility is the principal cause of bubbles. Investors and the general public get snared by a "beautiful illusion" and throw caution to the wind. Attempts to ...
Andrew M. Odlyzko
ECCV
2008
Springer
16 years 6 months ago
Floor Fields for Tracking in High Density Crowd Scenes
Abstract. This paper presents an algorithm for tracking individual targets in high density crowd scenes containing hundreds of people. Tracking in such a scene is extremely challen...
Saad Ali, Mubarak Shah
VLDB
2007
ACM
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16 years 4 months ago
MIST: Distributed Indexing and Querying in Sensor Networks using Statistical Models
The modeling of high level semantic events from low level sensor signals is important in order to understand distributed phenomena. For such content-modeling purposes, transformat...
Arnab Bhattacharya, Anand Meka, Ambuj K. Singh
PPPJ
2009
ACM
15 years 11 months ago
Tracking performance across software revisions
Repository-based revision control systems such as CVS, RCS, Subversion, and GIT, are extremely useful tools that enable software developers to concurrently modify source code, man...
Nagy Mostafa, Chandra Krintz
WISEC
2009
ACM
15 years 11 months ago
Towards a theory for securing time synchronization in wireless sensor networks
Time synchronization in highly distributed wireless systems like sensor and ad hoc networks is extremely important in order to maintain a consistent notion of time throughout the ...
Murtuza Jadliwala, Qi Duan, Shambhu J. Upadhyaya, ...