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MOBIHOC
2009
ACM
16 years 4 months ago
Energy-efficient capture of stochastic events by global- and local-periodic network coverage
We consider a high density of sensors randomly placed in a geographical area for event monitoring. The monitoring regions of the sensors may have significant overlap, and a subset...
Shibo He, Jiming Chen, David K. Y. Yau, Huanyu Sha...
KDD
2005
ACM
146views Data Mining» more  KDD 2005»
16 years 3 months ago
Anonymity-preserving data collection
Protection of privacy has become an important problem in data mining. In particular, individuals have become increasingly unwilling to share their data, frequently resulting in in...
Zhiqiang Yang, Sheng Zhong, Rebecca N. Wright
STOC
2003
ACM
124views Algorithms» more  STOC 2003»
16 years 3 months ago
Extractors: optimal up to constant factors
This paper provides the first explicit construction of extractors which are simultaneously optimal up to constant factors in both seed length and output length. More precisely, fo...
Chi-Jen Lu, Omer Reingold, Salil P. Vadhan, Avi Wi...
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SIGMOD
2001
ACM
158views Database» more  SIGMOD 2001»
16 years 3 months ago
Generating Efficient Plans for Queries Using Views
We study the problem of generating e cient, equivalent rewritings using views to compute the answer to a query. We take the closed-world assumption, in which views are materialize...
Foto N. Afrati, Chen Li, Jeffrey D. Ullman
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MOBIHOC
2006
ACM
16 years 3 months ago
Distributed localization using noisy distance and angle information
Localization is an important and extensively studied problem in ad-hoc wireless sensor networks. Given the connectivity graph of the sensor nodes, along with additional local info...
Amitabh Basu, Jie Gao, Joseph S. B. Mitchell, Giri...