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MHCI
2009
Springer
15 years 4 months ago
Hoverflow: exploring around-device interaction with IR distance sensors
By equipping a mobile device with distance sensing capabilities, we aim to expand the interaction possibilities of mobile and wearable devices beyond the confines of the physical ...
Sven G. Kratz, Michael Rohs
ATAL
2010
Springer
14 years 10 months ago
On the role of distances in defining voting rules
A voting rule is an algorithm for determining the winner in an election, and there are several approaches that have been used to justify the proposed rules. One justification is t...
Edith Elkind, Piotr Faliszewski, Arkadii M. Slinko
ICFP
2010
ACM
14 years 10 months ago
Distance makes the types grow stronger: a calculus for differential privacy
We want assurances that sensitive information will not be disclosed when aggregate data derived from a database is published. Differential privacy offers a strong statistical guar...
Jason Reed, Benjamin C. Pierce
PAMI
2011
14 years 4 months ago
Approximately Global Optimization for Robust Alignment of Generalized Shapes
—In this paper, we introduce a novel method to solve shape alignment problems. We use gray-scale “images” to represent source shapes, and propose a novel two-component Gaussi...
Hongsheng Li, Tian Shen, Xiaolei Huang
PODC
2004
ACM
15 years 3 months ago
Gradient clock synchronization
We introduce the distributed gradient clock synchronization problem. As in traditional distributed clock synchronization, we consider a network of nodes equipped with hardware clo...
Rui Fan, Nancy A. Lynch