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Efficiently Maintaining Distributed Model-Based Views on Real-Time Data Streams

Karl Aberer, Ho Young Jeung, Petre Alexandru Arion

Minimizing communication cost is a fundamental problem in large-scale federated sensor networks. Maintaining model-based views of data streams has been highlighted because it permits efficient data communication by transmitting parameter values of models, ...

IEEE2011

"If You Can't Beat Them, Join Them'': A Usability Approach to Interdependent Privacy in Cloud Apps

Karl Aberer, Hamza Harkous

Cloud storage services, like Dropbox and Google Drive, have growing ecosystems of 3rd party apps that are designed to work with users’ cloud files. Such apps often request full access to users’ files, including files shared with collaborators. Hence, whene ...

2017

Efficient processing of XPath queries with structured overlay networks

Karl Aberer, Manfred Hauswirth, Gleb Skobeltsyn

Non-trivial search predicates beyond mere equality are at the current focus of P2P research. Structured queries, as an important type of non-trivial search, have been studied extensively mainly for unstructured P2P systems so far. As unstructured P2P syste ...

Springer Verlag2005

Towards a global participatory platform Democratising open data, complexity science and collective intelligence

Karl Aberer

The FuturICT project seeks to use the power of big data, analytic models grounded in complexity science, and the collective intelligence they yield for societal benefit. Accordingly, this paper argues that these new tools should not remain the preserve of ...

Springer Verlag2012

Congestion Control for Distributed Hash Tables

Karl Aberer, Jean-Yves Le Boudec, Fabius Klemm

Distributed Hash Tables (DHTs) provide a scalable mechanism for mapping identifiers to socket addresses. As each peer in the network can initiate lookup requests, a DHT has to process concurrently a potentially very large number of requests. In this paper, ...

IEEE2006

Using Identity Premium for Honesty Enforcement and Whitewashing Prevention

Karl Aberer, Jie Zhang

One fundamental issue with existing reputation systems, particularly those implemented in open and decentralized environments, is whitewashing attacks by opportunistic participants. If identities are cheap, it is beneficial for a rational provider to simpl ...

Wiley-Blackwell2014

Internet-scale storage systems under churn - A study of the steady state using Markov models

Karl Aberer, Anwitaman Datta

Content storage in a distributed collaborative environment uses redundancy for better resilience and thus provides good availability and durability. In a peer-to-peer environment, where peers continuously leave and rejoin the network, various lazy strategi ...

IEEE Computer Society2006

Effective Usage of Computational Trust Models in Rational Environments

Karl Aberer

Computational reputation-based trust models using statistical learning have been intensively studied for distributed systems where peers behave maliciously. However practical applications of such models in environments with both malicious and rational beha ...

2011

Scalable Robust Graph Embedding with Spark

Karl Aberer, Quoc Viet Hung Nguyen, Chi Thang Duong

Graph embedding aims at learning a vector-based representation of vertices that incorporates the structure of the graph. This representation then enables inference of graph properties. Existing graph embedding techniques, however, do not scale well to larg ...

ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY2021

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

Karl Aberer

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

On Routing in Distributed Hash Tables

Karl Aberer, Jean-Yves Le Boudec, Fabius Klemm, Sarunas Girdzijauskas

There have been many proposals for constructing routing tables for Distributed Hash Tables (DHT). They can be classified into two groups: A) those that assume that the peers are uniformly randomly distributed in the identifier space, and B) those that allo ...

2007

Minimizing Human Effort in Reconciling Match Networks

Karl Aberer, Quoc Viet Hung Nguyen, Zoltán Miklós, Tri Kurniawan Wijaya

Schema and ontology matching is a process of establishing correspondences between schema attributes and ontology concepts, for the purpose of data integration. Various commercial and academic tools have been developed to support this task. These tools prov ...

2013

Graph Embeddings for One-pass Processing of Heterogeneous Queries

Karl Aberer, Quoc Viet Hung Nguyen, Chi Thang Duong

Effective information retrieval (IR) relies on the ability to comprehensively capture a user's information needs. Traditional IR systems are limited to homogeneous queries that define the information to retrieve by a single modality. Support for heterogene ...

IEEE COMPUTER SOC2020

Towards Integrated and Efficient Scientific Sensor Data Processing: A Database Approach

Karl Aberer, Jie Wu

In this work, we focus on managing scientific environmental data, which are measurement readings collected from wireless sensors. In environmental science applications, raw sensor data often need to be validated, interpolated, aligned and aggregated before ...

2009

Online Unsupervised State Recognition in Sensor Data

Karl Aberer, Tri Kurniawan Wijaya, Julien Eberle

Smart sensors, such as smart meters or smart phones, are nowadays ubiquitous. To be "smart", however, they need to process their input data with limited storage and computational resources. In this paper, we convert the stream of sensor data into a stream ...

2015

Automatic Construction and Multi-level Visualization of Semantic Trajectories

Karl Aberer, Stefano Spaccapietra, Christine Parent, Zhixian Yan, Dipanjan Chakraborty

With the prevalence of GPS-embedded mobile devices, enormous amounts of mobility data are being collected in the form of trajectory - a stream of (x,y,t) points. Such trajectories are of heterogeneous entities - vehicles, people, animals, parcels etc. Most ...

2010

Efficient Streaming Subgraph Isomorphism with Graph Neural Networks

Karl Aberer, Quoc Viet Hung Nguyen, Chi Thang Duong

Queries to detect isomorphic subgraphs are important in graph-based data management. While the problem of subgraph isomorphism search has received considerable attention for the static setting of a single query, or a batch thereof, existing approaches do n ...

ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY2021

DRSim: A Cyber Physical Simulator for Demand Response Systems

Karl Aberer, Dipanjan Chakraborty, Tri Kurniawan Wijaya

Demand Response (DR) is a mechanism in which electricity consumers alter their demand in response to power grid’s supply and economic conditions. DR programs have the potential to improve resource efficiency, sustainability, grid reliability and economic v ...

2013

CRAB: Assessing the Strength of Causal Relationships Between Real-World Events

Karl Aberer, Antoine Bosselut, Syrielle Mathilde Marie Montariol, Debjit Paul, Angeliki Romanou, Léo Jules Laugier

Understanding narratives requires reasoning about the cause-and-effect relationships between events mentioned in the text. While existing foundation models yield impressive results in many NLP tasks requiring reasoning, it is unclear whether they understan ...

Association for Computational Linguistics2023

A Probabilistic Framework for Decentralized Management of Trust and Quality

Karl Aberer

In this paper, we propose a probabilistic framework targeting three important issues in the computation of quality and trust in decentralized systems. Specifically, our approach addresses the multi-dimensionality of quality and trust, taking into account c ...

Springer-Verlag2007