From the June 2013 issue

Crowdsourced Trace Similarity with Smartphones

By Demetrios Zeinalipour-Yazti, Christos Laoudias, Constandinos Costa, Michail Vlachos, Maria I. Andreou, and Dimitrios Gunopulos

Smartphones are nowadays equipped with a number of sensors, such as WiFi, GPS, accelerometers, etc. This capability allows smartphone users to easily engage in crowdsourced computing services, which contribute to the solution of complex problems in a distributed manner. In this work, we leverage such a computing paradigm to solve efficiently the following problem: comparing a query trace Q against a crowd of traces generated and stored on distributed smartphones. Our proposed framework, coined SmartTrace⁺ , provides an effective solution without disclosing any part of the crowd traces to the query processor...

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Announcements

• We are pleased to announce that Jian Pei, professor of computing science in the School of Computing Science at Simon Fraser University in Canada, is the new Editor in Chief of IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering starting in 2013. He was previously the Associate Editor in Chief of TKDE.
• IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering Seeks Editor in Chief for 2014-2015 Terms
• eBooks of issues of TKDE can now be downloaded from the Computer Society Digital Library

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• New EIC Editorial (Feb 2013)
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• State of the Journal (Feb 2012)
• EIC Editorial (January 2011)

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• Special Section on the 27th International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE 2011)(Oct 2012)
• Special Section on Keyword Search on Structured Data (Dec 2011)
• Cloud Data Management (Sept 2011)
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