In the field of sensor networks, data integration and collaboration, and intelligence gathering efforts, information on the quality of data sources are important but are often not...
Knowledge communities of all kinds have social and material practices for deciding what is known and who is to be trusted. In this paper, we address a specific kind of knowledge w...
Nancy A. Van House, Mark H. Butler, Lisa R. Schiff
Suppose a number of hospitals in a geographic area want to learn how their own heart-surgery unit is doing compared with the others in terms of mortality rates, subsequent complic...
Mikhail J. Atallah, Marina Bykova, Jiangtao Li, Ke...
The growth of Internet commerce has stimulated the use of collaborative filtering (CF) algorithms as recommender systems. Such systems leverage knowledge about the known preferenc...
David M. Pennock, Eric Horvitz, Steve Lawrence, C....
Recent smartphones incorporate embedded GPS devices that enable users to obtain geographic information about their surroundings by providing a location-based service (LBS) with the...
Francisco Santos, Mathias Humbert, Reza Shokri, Je...