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JCDL
2004
ACM
198views Education» more  JCDL 2004»
14 years 4 months ago
Finding authoritative people from the web
Today’s web is so huge and diverse that it arguably reflects the real world. For this reason, searching the web is a promising approach to find things in the real world. This ...
Masanori Harada, Shin-ya Sato, Kazuhiro Kazama
SENSYS
2004
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
Synopsis diffusion for robust aggregation in sensor networks
Previous approaches for computing duplicate-sensitive aggregates in sensor networks (e.g., in TAG) have used a tree topology, in order to conserve energy and to avoid double-count...
Suman Nath, Phillip B. Gibbons, Srinivasan Seshan,...
SIGECOM
2004
ACM
120views ECommerce» more  SIGECOM 2004»
14 years 4 months ago
Computational criticisms of the revelation principle
The revelation principle is a cornerstone tool in mechanism design. It states that one can restrict attention, without loss in the designer’s objective, to mechanisms in which A...
Vincent Conitzer, Tuomas Sandholm
ASIAN
2004
Springer
180views Algorithms» more  ASIAN 2004»
14 years 4 months ago
Counting by Coin Tossings
Abstract. This text is an informal review of several randomized algorithms that have appeared over the past two decades and have proved instrumental in extracting efficiently quant...
Philippe Flajolet
FQAS
1998
Springer
133views Database» more  FQAS 1998»
14 years 3 months ago
Estimating the Quality of Databases
Abstract. With more and more electronic information sources becoming widely available, the issue of the quality of these often-competing sources has become germane. We propose a st...
Amihai Motro, Igor Rakov