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SENSYS
2010
ACM
13 years 8 months ago
Privacy-aware regression modeling of participatory sensing data
Many participatory sensing applications use data collected by participants to construct a public model of a system or phenomenon. For example, a health application might compute a...
Hossein Ahmadi, Nam Pham, Raghu K. Ganti, Tarek F....
SECON
2010
IEEE
13 years 8 months ago
Adaptive Instantiation of the Protocol Interference Model in Mission-Critical Wireless Networks
Interference model is the basis of MAC protocol design in wireless networks, and it directly affects the efficiency and predictability of wireless messaging. To exploit the strengt...
Xin Che, Xiaohui Liu, Xi Ju, Hongwei Zhang
SAB
2010
Springer
120views Optimization» more  SAB 2010»
13 years 8 months ago
A Supramodal Vibrissa Tactile and Auditory Model for Texture Recognition
Abstract. Audition and touch endow spectral processing abilities allowing texture recognition and discrimination. Rat whiskers sensorisystem exhibits, as the cochlea, resonance pro...
Mathieu Bernard, Steve N'Guyen, Patrick Pirim, Agn...
QEST
2010
IEEE
13 years 8 months ago
Rare Event Simulation for Highly Dependable Systems with Fast Repairs
Stochastic model checking has been used recently to assess, among others, dependability measures for a variety of systems. However, the employed numerical methods, as, e.g., suppor...
Daniël Reijsbergen, Pieter-Tjerk de Boer, Wer...
QEST
2010
IEEE
13 years 8 months ago
DTMC Model Checking by SCC Reduction
Discrete-Time Markov Chains (DTMCs) are a widely-used formalism to model probabilistic systems. On the one hand, available tools like PRISM or MRMC offer efficient model checking a...
Erika Ábrahám, Nils Jansen, Ralf Wim...
NAACL
2010
13 years 8 months ago
Joint Parsing and Alignment with Weakly Synchronized Grammars
Syntactic machine translation systems extract rules from bilingual, word-aligned, syntactically parsed text, but current systems for parsing and word alignment are at best cascade...
David Burkett, John Blitzer, Dan Klein
NAACL
2010
13 years 8 months ago
A Direct Syntax-Driven Reordering Model for Phrase-Based Machine Translation
This paper presents a direct word reordering model with novel syntax-based features for statistical machine translation. Reordering models address the problem of reordering source...
Niyu Ge
MASS
2010
162views Communications» more  MASS 2010»
13 years 8 months ago
A metric for routing in delay-sensitive wireless sensor networks
Abstract--We present a new scheme to reduce the end-toend routing delay in the mission-critical applications of the wireless sensor networks (WSNs) under the duty cycle model. Whil...
Zhen Jiang, Jie Wu, Risa Ito
KDD
2010
ACM
188views Data Mining» more  KDD 2010»
13 years 8 months ago
Trust network inference for online rating data using generative models
In an online rating system, raters assign ratings to objects contributed by other users. In addition, raters can develop trust and distrust on object contributors depending on a f...
Freddy Chong Tat Chua, Ee-Peng Lim
IPPS
2010
IEEE
13 years 8 months ago
On the importance of bandwidth control mechanisms for scheduling on large scale heterogeneous platforms
We study three scheduling problems (file redistribution, independent tasks scheduling and broadcasting) on large scale heterogeneous platforms under the Bounded Multi-port Model. I...
Olivier Beaumont, Hejer Rejeb