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PODS
2010
ACM
184views Database» more  PODS 2010»
14 years 2 months ago
Universally optimal privacy mechanisms for minimax agents
A scheme that publishes aggregate information about sensitive data must resolve the trade-off between utility to information consumers and privacy of the database participants. D...
Mangesh Gupte, Mukund Sundararajan
TMC
2010
119views more  TMC 2010»
13 years 7 months ago
SSUM: Smart Server Update Mechanism for Maintaining Cache Consistency in Mobile Environments
—This paper proposes a cache consistency scheme based on a previously proposed architecture for caching database data in MANETs. The original scheme for data caching stores the q...
Khaleel W. Mershad, Hassan Artail
ICDT
2010
ACM
172views Database» more  ICDT 2010»
14 years 1 months ago
k-jump strategy for preserving privacy in micro-data disclosure
In disclosing micro-data with sensitive attributes, the goal is usually two fold. First, the data utility of disclosed data should be maximized for analysis purposes. Second, the ...
Wen Ming Liu, Lingyu Wang, Lei Zhang
ROBIO
2006
IEEE
129views Robotics» more  ROBIO 2006»
14 years 3 months ago
Learning Utility Surfaces for Movement Selection
— Humanoid robots are highly redundant systems with respect to the tasks they are asked to perform. This redundancy manifests itself in the number of degrees of freedom of the ro...
Matthew Howard, Michael Gienger, Christian Goerick...
ATAL
2004
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
A Pheromone-Based Utility Model for Collaborative Foraging
Multi-agent research often borrows from biology, where remarkable examples of collective intelligence may be found. One interesting example is ant colonies’ use of pheromones as...
Liviu Panait, Sean Luke