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CSE
2009
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
Enabling Privacy as a Fundamental Construct for Social Networks
The current set of social networking platforms, e.g. Facebook and MySpace, has created a new class of Internet applications called social software. These systems focus on leveragi...
E. Michael Maximilien, Tyrone Grandison, Kun Liu, ...
CSE
2009
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
The Formation of Task-Oriented Groups: Exploring Combat Activities in Online Games
— Advanced communication technologies enable strangers to work together on the same tasks or projects in virtual environments. Understanding the formation of taskoriented groups ...
Yun Huang, Mengxiao Zhu, Jing Wang, Nishith Pathak...
COMPLEX
2009
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
A Preliminary Study on the Effects of Fear Factors in Disease Propagation
Upon an outbreak of a dangerous infectious disease, people generally tend to reduce their contacts with others in fear of getting infected. Such typical actions apparently help to ...
Yubo Wang, Jie Hu, Gaoxi Xiao, Limsoon Wong, Stefa...
ACMSE
2009
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
FI-based file access predictor
An algorithm is proposed for the purpose of optimizing the availability of files to an operating system prior to their being required during execution by a running system. This al...
Jinsuk Baek, Paul S. Fisher, Mingyung Kwak
SMA
2009
ACM
228views Solid Modeling» more  SMA 2009»
14 years 2 months ago
Robust mesh reconstruction from unoriented noisy points
We present a robust method to generate mesh surfaces from unoriented noisy points in this paper. The whole procedure consists of three steps. Firstly, the normal vectors at points...
Hoi Sheung, Charlie C. L. Wang