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Byzantine Agreement with Homonyms

Rachid Guerraoui, Anne-Marie Kermarrec, Eric Ruppert

So far, the distributed computing community has either assumed that all the processes of a distributed system have distinct identifiers or, more rarely, that the processes are anonymous and have no identifiers. These are two extremes of the same general mo ...

Springer2013

Hang With Your Buddies to Resist Intersection Attacks

Bryan Alexander Ford

Some anonymity schemes, such as DC-nets and MIX cascades, can guarantee anonymity even against traffic analysis – provided messages are independent and unlinkable. Users in practice often desire pseudonymity – sending messages intentionally linkable to eac ...

2013

A method and device for predicting faults in an it system

Dejan Novakovic, Dejan Kostic, Marco Canini, Vojin Jovanovic, Olivier Crameri

A method and device for predicting faults in a distributed heterogeneous IT system (100), the method comprising: creating a local checkpoint (19) in an explorer node (10) of said system (100), said local checkpoint (19) reflecting the state of said explore ...

2012

Socio-Technical Network Analysis from Wearable Interactions

Rémi Emonet, Katayoun Farrahi

complexity and computational social sciences. This paper draws from explicit (phone calls, SMS messaging) and implicit (proximity sensing based on Bluetooth radio signals) interaction patterns collected via smartphones and reality mining techniques to expl ...

2012

Getting in touch with text: Designing a mobile phone application for illiterate users to harness SMS

Jeffrey Huang, Hendrik Ole Knoche, Elsa Friscira

A large number of illiterate people - 800 million worldwide - are currently excluded from the benefits of asynchronous and cheap communication through text messages also known as SMS. Smart phones with touch screen will soon be in financial reach of illite ...

2012

Byzantine agreement with homonyms

Rachid Guerraoui, Anne-Marie Kermarrec, Eric Ruppert

ACM Press2011

People-Centric Mobile Sensing with a Pragmatic Twist: from Behavioral Data Points to Active User Involvement

Daniel Gatica-Perez

Mobile phones have recently been used to collect large-scale continuous data about human behavior. This people centric sensing paradigm is useful not only from a scientific point of view: Contextual user data has pragmatic value, too. Individuals whose dat ...

2011

Distributed processing of continuous sliding-window k-NN queries for data stream filtering

Karl Aberer, Ivana Podnar, Kresimir Pripuzic

A sliding-window k-NN query (k-NN/w query) continuously monitors incoming data stream objects within a sliding window to identify k closest objects to a query. It enables effective filtering of data objects streaming in at high rates from potentially distr ...

Springer Verlag2011

Mobile Cosmetics Advisor: An Imaging Based Mobile Service

Sabine Süsstrunk, Joanna Marguier

Selecting cosmetics requires visual information and often benefits from the assessments of a cosmetics expert. In this paper we present a unique mobile imaging application that enables women to use their cell phones to get immediate expert advice when sele ...

2010

Image-Based Mobile Service: Automatic Text Extraction and Translation

Jérôme Berclaz

We present a new mobile service for the translation of text from images taken by consumer-grade cell-phone cameras. Such capability represents a new paradigm for users where a simple image provides the basis for a service. The ubiquity and ease of use of c ...

Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers2010

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