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JLBS
2008
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13 years 7 months ago
Leveraging explicitly disclosed location information to understand tourist dynamics: a case study
In recent years, the large deployment of mobile devices has led to a massive increase in the volume of records of where people have been and when they were there. The analysis of t...
Fabien Girardin, Filippo Dal Fiore, Carlo Ratti, J...
STOC
2005
ACM
174views Algorithms» more  STOC 2005»
14 years 8 months ago
On the average case performance of some greedy approximation algorithms for the uncapacitated facility location problem
In combinatorial optimization, a popular approach to NP-hard problems is the design of approximation algorithms. These algorithms typically run in polynomial time and are guarante...
Abraham Flaxman, Alan M. Frieze, Juan Carlos Vera
ICCD
2002
IEEE
164views Hardware» more  ICCD 2002»
14 years 4 months ago
Locating Tiny Sensors in Time and Space: A Case Study
— As the cost of embedded sensors and actuators drops, new applications will arise that exploit high density networks of small devices capable of a variety of sensing tasks. Alth...
Lewis Girod, Vladimir Bychkovskiy, Jeremy Elson, D...
SWAT
2000
Springer
90views Algorithms» more  SWAT 2000»
13 years 11 months ago
Efficient Expected-Case Algorithms for Planar Point Location
Planar point location is among the most fundamental search problems in computational geometry. Although this problem has been heavily studied from the perspective of worst-case que...
Sunil Arya, Siu-Wing Cheng, David M. Mount, Ramesh...
COORDINATION
2004
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
Using Coordination Middleware for Location-Aware Computing: A Lime Case Study
Abstract. The decoupling between behavior and communication fostered by coordination becomes of paramount importance in mobile computing. In this scenario, however, coordination te...
Amy L. Murphy, Gian Pietro Picco