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2010
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15 years 10 days ago
Handling Mobility in Wireless Sensor and Actor Networks
— In Wireless Sensor and Actor Networks (WSANs), the collaborative operation of sensors enables the distributed sensing of a physical phenomenon, while actors collect and process...
Tommaso Melodia, Dario Pompili, Ian F. Akyildiz
WWW
2010
ACM
15 years 9 months ago
Generalized distances between rankings
Spearman’s footrule and Kendall’s tau are two well established distances between rankings. They, however, fail to take into account concepts crucial to evaluating a result set...
Ravi Kumar, Sergei Vassilvitskii
IMC
2007
ACM
15 years 3 months ago
Learning network structure from passive measurements
The ability to discover network organization, whether in the form of explicit topology reconstruction or as embeddings that approximate topological distance, is a valuable tool. T...
Brian Eriksson, Paul Barford, Robert Nowak, Mark C...
SIGIR
2008
ACM
15 years 1 months ago
A simple and efficient sampling method for estimating AP and NDCG
We consider the problem of large scale retrieval evaluation. Recently two methods based on random sampling were proposed as a solution to the extensive effort required to judge te...
Emine Yilmaz, Evangelos Kanoulas, Javed A. Aslam
CIKM
2010
Springer
15 years 17 days ago
SHRINK: a structural clustering algorithm for detecting hierarchical communities in networks
Community detection is an important task for mining the structure and function of complex networks. Generally, there are several different kinds of nodes in a network which are c...
Jianbin Huang, Heli Sun, Jiawei Han, Hongbo Deng, ...