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Quality-aware similarity assessment for entity matching in Web data

Karl Aberer, Zoltán Miklós, Surender Reddy Yerva

One of the key challenges to realize automated processing of the information on the Web, which is the central goal of the Semantic Web, is related to the entity matching problem. There are a number of tools that reliably recognize named entities, such as p ...

Wiley-Blackwell2012

My3: A highly-available P2P-based online social network

Karl Aberer, Rammohan Narendula

As the online social networks (OSNs), such as Facebook, witness explosive growth, the privacy challenges gain critical consideration from governmental and law agencies due to concentration of vast amount of personal information within a single administrati ...

Ieee Service Center, 445 Hoes Lane, Po Box 1331, Piscataway, Nj 08855-1331 Usa2011

Genetic Diversity of Sheep Breeds from Albania, Greece, and Italy Assessed by Mitochondrial DNA and Nuclear Polymorphisms (SNPs)

Stéphane Joost

We employed mtDNA and nuclear SNPs to investigate the genetic diversity of sheep breeds of three countries of the Mediterranean basin: Albania, Greece, and Italy. In total, 154 unique mtDNA haplotypes were detected by means of D-loop sequence analysis. The ...

2011

En quête d'habitat

Marie-Paule Thomas

This doctoral thesis is based on the observation that the individualization of society that is taking place today has led to new differentiations within the domains of lifestyle and residential choice. Our main hypothesis was that lifestyle influences resi ...

EPFL2011

Collaborative Location Privacy with Rational Users

Jean-Pierre Hubaux, Mathias Jacques Jean-Marc Humbert, Reza Shokri, Francisco De Meneses Neves Ramos Dos Santos

Recent smartphones incorporate embedded GPS devices that enable users to obtain geographic information about their surroundings by providing a location-based service (LBS) with their current coordinates. However, LBS providers collect a significant amount ...

Springer-Verlag Berlin2011

Privacy-aware and highly-available OSN profiles

Karl Aberer, Rammohan Narendula

The explosive growth of online social networks (OSNs) and their wide popularity suggest the impact of OSNs on today's Internet. At the same time, concentration of vast amount of personal information within a single administrative domain causes critical pri ...

2010

Towards Robust Place Recognition for Robot Localization

Barbara Caputo, Jie Luo

Localization and context interpretation are two key competences for mobile robot systems. Visual place recognition, as opposed to purely geometrical models, holds promise of higher flexibility and association of semantics to the model. Ideally, a place rec ...

Idiap2010

NAVAROU - Potentiel d'utilisation des données routières de la navigation automobile pour l'entretien routier

Pierre-Yves Gilliéron

Car navigation is a field in broad expansion and the industry quickly developed a standard to model cartographic data useful for the applications of the road transport telematics: GDF, Geographic Data Files. Since its first version in 1988, GDF became an I ...

2008

Contribution du SIG à l'analyse des liens déchets-santé en milieu urbain dans les pays en développement

Sonwouignandé Kientga

Among the factors of health risks in urban areas, the solid and liquid wastes worsen particularly the problems of public health in developing countries. Uncontrolled solid waste disposal sites and waste water sites constitute major sources of danger for pu ...

EPFL2008

Quantifying the taxonomic diversity in real species communities

Cécile Caretta Cartozo, Marc Barthélemy

We analyze several florae (collections of plant species populating specific areas) in different geographic and climatic regions. For every list of species we produce a taxonomic classification tree and we consider its statistical properties. We find that r ...

2008

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