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GIS
2009
ACM
15 years 4 months ago
Trajectory simplification method for location-based social networking services
The increasing availabilities of GPS-enabled devices have given rise to the location-based social networking services (LBSN), in which users can record their travel experiences wi...
Yukun Chen, Kai Jiang, Yu Zheng, Chunping Li, Neng...
DEBU
2006
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14 years 9 months ago
Towards Activity Databases: Using Sensors and Statistical Models to Summarize People's Lives
Automated reasoning about human behavior is a central goal of artificial intelligence. In order to engage and intervene in a meaningful way, an intelligent system must be able to ...
Tanzeem Choudhury, Matthai Philipose, Danny Wyatt,...
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CCS
2010
ACM
14 years 9 months ago
Detecting and characterizing social spam campaigns
Online social networks (OSNs) are popular collaboration and communication tools for millions of users and their friends. Unfortunately, in the wrong hands, they are also effective...
Hongyu Gao, Jun Hu, Christo Wilson, Zhichun Li, Ya...
SAC
2008
ACM
14 years 9 months ago
Whom should I trust?: the impact of key figures on cold start recommendations
Generating adequate recommendations for newcomers is a hard problem for a recommender system (RS) due to lack of detailed user profiles and social preference data. Empirical evide...
Patricia Victor, Chris Cornelis, Ankur Teredesai, ...
DSN
2006
IEEE
15 years 3 months ago
Assessing the Attack Threat due to IRC Channels
This practical experience report presents the results of an investigation into the threat of attacks associated with the chat medium IRC. A combination of simulated users (i.e., b...
Robert Meyer, Michel Cukier