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SIGMOD
2012
ACM
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11 years 10 months ago
MaskIt: privately releasing user context streams for personalized mobile applications
The rise of smartphones equipped with various sensors has enabled personalization of various applications based on user contexts extracted from sensor readings. At the same time i...
Michaela Götz, Suman Nath, Johannes Gehrke
SIGIR
2012
ACM
11 years 10 months ago
Robust ranking models via risk-sensitive optimization
Many techniques for improving search result quality have been proposed. Typically, these techniques increase average effectiveness by devising advanced ranking features and/or by...
Lidan Wang, Paul N. Bennett, Kevyn Collins-Thompso...
ICDE
2001
IEEE
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14 years 9 months ago
Selectivity Estimation for Spatial Joins
Spatial Joins are important and time consuming operations in spatial database management systems. It is crucial to be able to accurately estimate the performance of these operatio...
Ning An, Zhen-Yu Yang, Anand Sivasubramaniam
WWW
2008
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Exploring social annotations for information retrieval
Social annotation has gained increasing popularity in many Web-based applications, leading to an emerging research area in text analysis and information retrieval. This paper is c...
Ding Zhou, Jiang Bian, Shuyi Zheng, Hongyuan Zha, ...
SIGMOD
2002
ACM
134views Database» more  SIGMOD 2002»
14 years 7 months ago
Wavelet synopses with error guarantees
Recent work has demonstrated the effectiveness of the wavelet decomposition in reducing large amounts of data to compact sets of wavelet coefficients (termed "wavelet synopse...
Minos N. Garofalakis, Phillip B. Gibbons