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EDBT
2010
ACM
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14 years 18 days ago
Privacy preserving group nearest neighbor queries
User privacy in location-based services has attracted great interest in the research community. We introduce a novel framework based on a decentralized architecture for privacy pr...
Tanzima Hashem, Lars Kulik, Rui Zhang
CIKM
2010
Springer
13 years 5 months ago
Wisdom of the ages: toward delivering the children's web with the link-based agerank algorithm
Though children frequently use web search engines to learn, interact, and be entertained, modern web search engines are poorly suited to children's needs, requiring relativel...
Karl Gyllstrom, Marie-Francine Moens
CIKM
2009
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
Expected reciprocal rank for graded relevance
While numerous metrics for information retrieval are available in the case of binary relevance, there is only one commonly used metric for graded relevance, namely the Discounted ...
Olivier Chapelle, Donald Metlzer, Ya Zhang, Pierre...
ICSNW
2004
Springer
188views Database» more  ICSNW 2004»
14 years 26 days ago
Peer Selection in Peer-to-Peer Networks with Semantic Topologies
Peer-to-Peer systems have proven to be an effective way of sharing data. Modern protocols are able to efficiently route a message to a given peer. However, determining the destin...
Peter Haase, Ronny Siebes, Frank van Harmelen
PVLDB
2010
128views more  PVLDB 2010»
13 years 2 months ago
Searching Workflows with Hierarchical Views
Workflows are prevalent in diverse applications, which can be scientific experiments, business processes, web services, or recipes. With the dramatically growing number of workflo...
Ziyang Liu, Qihong Shao, Yi Chen