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WWW
2008
ACM
15 years 10 months ago
Secure or insure?: a game-theoretic analysis of information security games
Despite general awareness of the importance of keeping one's system secure, and widespread availability of consumer security technologies, actual investment in security remai...
Jens Grossklags, Nicolas Christin, John Chuang
KDD
2008
ACM
147views Data Mining» more  KDD 2008»
15 years 10 months ago
Mobile call graphs: beyond power-law and lognormal distributions
We analyze a massive social network, gathered from the records of a large mobile phone operator, with more than a million users and tens of millions of calls. We examine the distr...
Mukund Seshadri, Sridhar Machiraju, Ashwin Sridhar...
SIGCOMM
2009
ACM
15 years 4 months ago
VUPoints: collaborative sensing and video recording through mobile phones
Mobile phones are becoming a convergent platform for sensing, computation, and communication. This paper envisions VUPoints, a collaborative sensing and video-recording system tha...
Xuan Bao, Romit Roy Choudhury
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HICSS
2003
IEEE
144views Biometrics» more  HICSS 2003»
15 years 3 months ago
Democracy Functions of Information Technology
Information Technology, IT, may play an important part in any community as a supporting tool in the democratic process. The conditions for that to happen are primarily a genuine w...
Gunnar Lidén, Anders Avdic
INFOCOM
2010
IEEE
14 years 10 months ago
Walking in Facebook: A Case Study of Unbiased Sampling of OSNs
With more than 250 million active users, Facebook (FB) is currently one of the most important online social networks. Our goal in this paper is to obtain a representative (unbiased...
Minas Gjoka, Maciej Kurant, Carter T. Butts, Athin...