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CHI
2009
ACM
14 years 9 months ago
Taking the time to care: empowering low health literacy hospital patients with virtual nurse agents
Ninety million Americans have inadequate health literacy, resulting in a reduced ability to read and follow directions in the healthcare environment. We describe an animated, empa...
Timothy W. Bickmore, Laura M. Pfeifer, Brian W. Ja...
STOC
2006
ACM
152views Algorithms» more  STOC 2006»
14 years 9 months ago
Private approximation of search problems
Many approximation algorithms have been presented in the last decades for hard search problems. The focus of this paper is on cryptographic applications, where it is desired to de...
Amos Beimel, Paz Carmi, Kobbi Nissim, Enav Weinreb
SIGMOD
2008
ACM
164views Database» more  SIGMOD 2008»
14 years 8 months ago
Finding frequent items in probabilistic data
Computing statistical information on probabilistic data has attracted a lot of attention recently, as the data generated from a wide range of data sources are inherently fuzzy or ...
Qin Zhang, Feifei Li, Ke Yi
SIGMOD
2001
ACM
158views Database» more  SIGMOD 2001»
14 years 8 months ago
Generating Efficient Plans for Queries Using Views
We study the problem of generating e cient, equivalent rewritings using views to compute the answer to a query. We take the closed-world assumption, in which views are materialize...
Foto N. Afrati, Chen Li, Jeffrey D. Ullman
MOBIHOC
2003
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Mobility helps security in ad hoc networks
Contrary to the common belief that mobility makes security more difficult to achieve, we show that node mobility can, in fact, be useful to provide security in ad hoc networks. We...
Jean-Pierre Hubaux, Levente Buttyán, Srdjan...