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Jean-Pierre Hubaux, Julien Freudiger, Nevena Vratonjic

Modern web sites commonly interact with third-party domains to integrate advertisements and generate revenue from them. To improve the relevance of advertisement, online advertisers track user activities online with third- party cookies. However, excessive ...

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Location Privacy amidst Local Eavesdroppers

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Mobile social networks and location-aware applications are becoming more and more widespread in current wireless networks. Thanks to WiFi or Bluetooth-enabled devices, everyday mobile users can enjoy new services. However, the deployment of these mobile te ...

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A model for spatially embedded social networks

Gunnar Flötteröd

This paper presents a stochastic model for spatially embedded social networks based on the ideas of spatial interaction models. Analysing empirical data, we find that the probability to accept a social contact at a certain distance follows a power law with ...

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We aim to describe the mediation language between users and indexers in a document retrieval system for a big scientific community intimately related to European Union policies. We assume that this mediation is played by thesauri: sets of indexes apparentl ...

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Answering questions about archived, annotated meetings

Marita Ailomaa

Retrieving information from archived meetings is a new domain of information retrieval that has received increasing attention in the past few years. Search in spontaneous spoken conversations has been recognized as more difficult than text-based document r ...

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Towards Collaborative Portable Web Spaces

Denis Gillet, Stéphane Sire, Evgeny Bogdanov

As two recent trends in Web development, Widgets and mashups, are converging, we claim that there is a growing need to define a Widget Space configuration language to allow building flexible personal learning environments that could be independent of a run ...

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Automatic Role Recognition in Multiparty Recordings Using Social Networks and Probabilistic Sequential Models

Sarah Favre, Alessandro Vinciarelli

The automatic analysis of social interactions is attracting significant interest in the multimedia community. This work addresses one of the most important aspects of the problem, namely the recognition of roles in social exchanges. The proposed approach i ...

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Coûts de la regulation des industries des réseaux: Enseignements du réseau postal

Matthias Finger, Martin Maegli

La régulation joue un rôle important dans la mise en œuvre de la libéralisation des industries de réseau. Si elle vise à favoriser une certaine prospérité de l’économie et de la société, cette intervention de l’Etat présente certaines limites. Les procédur ...

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Quality-Based Resource Brokerage for Autonomous Networked Multimedia Applications

Hyung Gon Park

In this paper, we assume that the network resources are managed by several brokers, which are endowed with resources by a (remote) central resource manager according to several predetermined policies. Our focus is on autonomous multimedia users. We propose ...

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Topickr: Flickr Groups and Users Reloaded

Daniel Gatica-Perez, Radu Andrei Negoescu

With the increased presence of digital imaging devices there also came an explosion in the amount of multimedia content available online. Users have transformed from passive consumers of media into content creators. Flickr.com is such an example of an onli ...

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