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WWW
2007
ACM
16 years 1 months ago
Long distance wireless mesh network planning: problem formulation and solution
Several research efforts as well as deployments have chosen IEEE 802.11 as a low-cost, long-distance access technology to bridge the digital divide. In this paper, we consider the...
Sayandeep Sen, Bhaskaran Raman
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LREC
2010
132views Education» more  LREC 2010»
15 years 2 months ago
A Question-answer Distance Measure to Investigate QA System Progress
The performance of question answering system is evaluated through successive evaluations campaigns. A set of questions are given to the participating systems which are to find the...
Guillaume Bernard, Sophie Rosset, Martine Adda-Dec...
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IPSN
2011
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
SpiderBat: Augmenting wireless sensor networks with distance and angle information
Having access to accurate position information is a key requirement for many wireless sensor network applications. We present the design, implementation and evaluation of SpiderBa...
Georg Oberholzer, Philipp Sommer, Roger Wattenhofe...
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ICFP
2010
ACM
15 years 1 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
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STOC
2005
ACM
130views Algorithms» more  STOC 2005»
16 years 1 months ago
Low-distortion embeddings of general metrics into the line
A low-distortion embedding between two metric spaces is a mapping which preserves the distances between each pair of points, up to a small factor called distortion. Low-distortion...
Mihai Badoiu, Julia Chuzhoy, Piotr Indyk, Anastasi...