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CSE
2009
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
All Friends Are Not Created Equal: An Interaction Intensity Based Approach to Privacy in Online Social Networks
Recent research identifies a growing privacy problem that exists within Online Social Networks (OSNs). Several studies have shown how easily strangers can extract personal data a...
Lerone Banks, Shyhtsun Felix Wu
FOCS
2009
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
Extracting Correlations
Abstract— Motivated by applications in cryptography, we consider a generalization of randomness extraction and the related notion of privacy amplification to the case of two cor...
Yuval Ishai, Eyal Kushilevitz, Rafail Ostrovsky, A...
IMC
2009
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Scalable proximity estimation and link prediction in online social networks
Proximity measures quantify the closeness or similarity between nodes in a social network and form the basis of a range of applications in social sciences, business, information t...
Han Hee Song, Tae Won Cho, Vacha Dave, Yin Zhang, ...
ACSC
2006
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
SPiKE: engineering malware analysis tools using unobtrusive binary-instrumentation
Malware — a generic term that encompasses viruses, trojans, spywares and other intrusive code — is widespread today. Malware analysis is a multi-step process providing insight...
Amit Vasudevan, Ramesh Yerraballi
FOCS
2006
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
Approximation algorithms for allocation problems: Improving the factor of 1 - 1/e
Combinatorial allocation problems require allocating items to players in a way that maximizes the total utility. Two such problems received attention recently, and were addressed ...
Uriel Feige, Jan Vondrák