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ASPLOS
2004
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
Devirtualizable virtual machines enabling general, single-node, online maintenance
Maintenance is the dominant source of downtime at high availability sites. Unfortunately, the dominant mechanism for reducing this downtime, cluster rolling upgrade, has two short...
David E. Lowell, Yasushi Saito, Eileen J. Samberg
FOCS
2010
IEEE
13 years 4 months ago
A Multiplicative Weights Mechanism for Privacy-Preserving Data Analysis
Abstract--We consider statistical data analysis in the interactive setting. In this setting a trusted curator maintains a database of sensitive information about individual partici...
Moritz Hardt, Guy N. Rothblum
AAAI
2012
11 years 8 months ago
Online Task Assignment in Crowdsourcing Markets
We explore the problem of assigning heterogeneous tasks to workers with different, unknown skill sets in crowdsourcing markets such as Amazon Mechanical Turk. We first formalize ...
Chien-Ju Ho, Jennifer Wortman Vaughan
SIGECOM
2000
ACM
121views ECommerce» more  SIGECOM 2000»
13 years 10 months ago
Immunizing online reputation reporting systems against unfair ratings and discriminatory behavior
Reputation reporting systems have emerged as an important risk management mechanism in online trading communities. However, the predictive value of these systems can be compromise...
Chrysanthos Dellarocas
IJSNET
2010
122views more  IJSNET 2010»
13 years 4 months ago
Ensuring high sensor data quality through use of online outlier detection techniques
: Data collected by Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) are inherently unreliable. Therefore, to ensure high data quality, secure monitoring, and reliable detection of interesting and ...
Yang Zhang, Nirvana Meratnia, Paul J. M. Havinga