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LOCA
2009
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
Location Diversity: Enhanced Privacy Protection in Location Based Services
Abstract. Location-based Services are emerging as popular applications in pervasive computing. Spatial k-anonymity is used in Locationbased Services to protect privacy, by hiding t...
Mingqiang Xue, Panos Kalnis, Hung Keng Pung
CIKM
2007
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
Query expansion using probabilistic local feedback with application to multimedia retrieval
As one of the most effective query expansion approaches, local feedback is able to automatically discover new query terms and improve retrieval accuracy for different retrieval ...
Rong Yan, Alexander G. Hauptmann
CIKM
2009
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
Post-rank reordering: resolving preference misalignments between search engines and end users
No search engine is perfect. A typical type of imperfection is the preference misalignment between search engines and end users, e.g., from time to time, web users skip higherrank...
Chao Liu, Mei Li, Yi-Min Wang
ECIR
2010
Springer
13 years 7 months ago
Biometric Response as a Source of Query Independent Scoring in Lifelog Retrieval
Personal lifelog archives contain digital records captured from an individual’s daily life, e.g. emails, web pages downloaded and SMSs sent or received. While capturing this info...
Liadh Kelly, Gareth J. F. Jones
SIGMOD
1998
ACM
180views Database» more  SIGMOD 1998»
14 years 25 days ago
Integration of Heterogeneous Databases Without Common Domains Using Queries Based on Textual Similarity
Most databases contain “name constants” like course numbers, personal names, and place names that correspond to entities in the real world. Previous work in integration of het...
William W. Cohen