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MOBISYS
2010
ACM
15 years 6 months ago
Energy-efficient rate-adaptive GPS-based positioning for smartphones
Many emerging smartphone applications require position information to provide location-based or context-aware services. In these applications, GPS is often preferred over its alte...
Jeongyeup Paek, Joongheon Kim, Ramesh Govindan
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USS
2008
15 years 6 months ago
An Improved Clock-skew Measurement Technique for Revealing Hidden Services
The Tor anonymisation network allows services, such as web servers, to be operated under a pseudonym. In previous work Murdoch described a novel attack to reveal such hidden servi...
Sebastian Zander, Steven J. Murdoch
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CEAS
2008
Springer
15 years 5 months ago
The Effectiveness of Whitelisting: a User-Study
We believe this paper is the first extensive user-study of whitelisting email addresses. While whitelists are common in social networking and instant messaging (e.g., buddylists),...
David Erickson, Martin Casado, Nick McKeown
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EDM
2008
97views Data Mining» more  EDM 2008»
15 years 5 months ago
Using Item-type Performance Covariance to Improve the Skill Model of an Existing Tutor
Using data from an existing pre-algebra computer-based tutor, we analyzed the covariance of item-types with the goal of describing a more effective way to assign skill labels to it...
Philip I. Pavlik, Hao Cen, Lili Wu, Kenneth R. Koe...
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NSDI
2010
15 years 5 months ago
Volley: Automated Data Placement for Geo-Distributed Cloud Services
: As cloud services grow to span more and more globally distributed datacenters, there is an increasingly urgent need for automated mechanisms to place application data across thes...
Sharad Agarwal, John Dunagan, Navendu Jain, Stefan...