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ICDCS
2011
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
SpotME If You Can: Randomized Responses for Location Obfuscation on Mobile Phones
Abstract—Nowadays companies increasingly aggregate location data from different sources on the Internet to offer locationbased services such as estimating current road traffic c...
Daniele Quercia, Ilias Leontiadis, Liam McNamara, ...
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ISAAC
1999
Springer
70views Algorithms» more  ISAAC 1999»
15 years 7 months ago
Multiple Spin-Block Decisions
We study the online problem of holding a number of idle threads on an application server, which we have ready for processing new requests. The problem stems from the fact that bot...
Peter Damaschke
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FOCS
2008
IEEE
15 years 10 months ago
Beating the Random Ordering is Hard: Inapproximability of Maximum Acyclic Subgraph
We prove that approximating the Max Acyclic Subgraph problem within a factor better than 1/2 is Unique-Games hard. Specifically, for every constant ε > 0 the following holds:...
Venkatesan Guruswami, Rajsekar Manokaran, Prasad R...
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TNN
2011
107views more  TNN 2011»
14 years 10 months ago
Iterative Gaussianization: From ICA to Random Rotations
Abstract—Most signal processing problems involve the challenging task of multidimensional probability density function (PDF) estimation. In this paper, we propose a solution to t...
Valero Laparra, Gustavo Camps-Valls, Jesus Malo
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HICSS
2006
IEEE
152views Biometrics» more  HICSS 2006»
15 years 9 months ago
Distributed Uniform Sampling in Unstructured Peer-to-Peer Networks
— Uniform sampling in networks is at the core of a wide variety of randomized algorithms. Random sampling can be performed by modeling the system as an undirected graph with asso...
Asad Awan, Ronaldo A. Ferreira, Suresh Jagannathan...