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ICDE
2003
IEEE
180views Database» more  ICDE 2003»
15 years 9 days ago
PeerDB: A P2P-based System for Distributed Data Sharing
In this paper, we present the design and evaluation of PeerDB, a peer-to-peer (P2P) distributed data sharing system. PeerDB distinguishes itself from existing P2P systems in sever...
Wee Siong Ng, Beng Chin Ooi, Kian-Lee Tan, Aoying ...
MOBISYS
2009
ACM
14 years 11 months ago
Attacks on public WLAN-based positioning systems
In this work, we study the security of public WLAN-based positioning systems. Specifically, we investigate the Skyhook positioning system, available on PCs and used on a number of...
Nils Ole Tippenhauer, Kasper Bonne Rasmussen, Chri...
KDD
2007
ACM
168views Data Mining» more  KDD 2007»
14 years 11 months ago
Finding tribes: identifying close-knit individuals from employment patterns
We present a family of algorithms to uncover tribes--groups of individuals who share unusual sequences of affiliations. While much work inferring community structure describes lar...
Lisa Friedland, David Jensen
VLDB
2008
ACM
147views Database» more  VLDB 2008»
14 years 11 months ago
PicShark: mitigating metadata scarcity through large-scale P2P collaboration
With the commoditization of digital devices, personal information and media sharing is becoming a key application on the pervasive Web. In such a context, data annotation rather th...
Philippe Cudré-Mauroux, Adriana Budura, Manfred H...
SIGMOD
2008
ACM
150views Database» more  SIGMOD 2008»
14 years 11 months ago
Ranking queries on uncertain data: a probabilistic threshold approach
Uncertain data is inherent in a few important applications such as environmental surveillance and mobile object tracking. Top-k queries (also known as ranking queries) are often n...
Ming Hua, Jian Pei, Wenjie Zhang, Xuemin Lin