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MOBICOM
2009
ACM
15 years 10 months ago
SurroundSense: mobile phone localization via ambience fingerprinting
A growing number of mobile computing applications are centered around the user’s location. The notion of location is broad, ranging from physical coordinates (latitude/longitude...
Martin Azizyan, Ionut Constandache, Romit Roy Chou...
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PODC
2004
ACM
15 years 9 months ago
Group membership: a novel approach and the first single-round algorithm
We establish a new worst-case upper bound on the Membership problem: We present a simple algorithm that is able to always achieve Agreement on Views within a single message latenc...
Roger I. Khazan
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BMCBI
2008
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15 years 3 months ago
R/parallel - speeding up bioinformatics analysis with R
Background: R is the preferred tool for statistical analysis of many bioinformaticians due in part to the increasing number of freely available analytical methods. Such methods ca...
Gonzalo Vera, Ritsert C. Jansen, Remo Suppi
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SIGMOD
2008
ACM
139views Database» more  SIGMOD 2008»
16 years 3 months ago
Paths to stardom: calibrating the potential of a peer-based data management system
As peer-to-peer (P2P) networks become more familiar to the database community, intense interest has built up in using their scalability and resilience properties to scale database...
Mihai Lupu, Beng Chin Ooi, Y. C. Tay
SIGECOM
2009
ACM
111views ECommerce» more  SIGECOM 2009»
15 years 10 months ago
A qualitative vickrey auction
Restricting the preferences of the agents by assuming that their utility functions linearly depend on a payment allows for the positive results of the Vickrey auction and the Vick...
Paul Harrenstein, Mathijs de Weerdt, Vincent Conit...