Karl Aberer

ORCID: 0000-0003-3005-7342
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Research Areas
  • Peer-to-Peer Network Technologies
  • Semantic Web and Ontologies
  • Caching and Content Delivery
  • Advanced Database Systems and Queries
  • Data Management and Algorithms
  • Distributed and Parallel Computing Systems
  • Service-Oriented Architecture and Web Services
  • Topic Modeling
  • Web Data Mining and Analysis
  • Access Control and Trust
  • Mobile Crowdsensing and Crowdsourcing
  • Complex Network Analysis Techniques
  • Privacy-Preserving Technologies in Data
  • Human Mobility and Location-Based Analysis
  • Time Series Analysis and Forecasting
  • Natural Language Processing Techniques
  • Misinformation and Its Impacts
  • Data Stream Mining Techniques
  • Scientific Computing and Data Management
  • Context-Aware Activity Recognition Systems
  • Energy Efficient Wireless Sensor Networks
  • Spam and Phishing Detection
  • Advanced Data Storage Technologies
  • Multimedia Communication and Technology
  • Business Process Modeling and Analysis

École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
2015-2025

Laboratoire d'Informatique Fondamentale de Lille
2008-2023

The University of Queensland
2021

Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
2021

University of Pittsburgh
2019-2021

Purdue University System
2019-2021

Drexel University
2019-2021

Swinburne University of Technology
2019-2021

IBM (United States)
2019-2021

Georgia Institute of Technology
2019-2021

Managing trust is a problem of particular importance in peer-to-peer environments where one frequently encounters unknown agents. Existing methods for management, that are based on reputation, focus the semantic properties model. They do not scale as they either rely central database or require to maintain global knowledge at each agent provide data earlier interactions. In this paper we present an approach addresses reputation-based management both and level. We employ levels scalable...

10.1145/502585.502638 article EN 2001-10-05

With the price of wireless sensor technologies diminishing rapidly we can expect large numbers autonomous networks being deployed in near future. These will typically not remain isolated but need interconnecting them on network level to enable integrated data processing arise, thus realizing vision a global "sensor Internet." This requires flexible middleware layer which abstracts from underlying, heterogeneous and supports fast simple deployment addition new platforms, facilitates efficient...

10.1109/mdm.2007.36 article EN 2007-05-01

Location-based social networks (LBSNs) offer researchers rich data to study people's online activities and mobility patterns. One important application of such studies is provide personalized point-of-interest (POI) recommendations enhance user experience in LBSNs. Previous solutions directly predict users' preference on locations but fail insights about transitions among locations. In this work, we propose a novel category-aware POI recommendation model, which exploits the transition...

10.1145/2505515.2505639 article EN 2013-10-27

Power consumption on mobile phones is a painful obstacle towards adoption of continuous sensing driven applications, e.g., continuously inferring individual's locomotive activities (such as 'sit', 'stand' or 'walk') using the embedded accelerometer sensor. To reduce energy overhead such activity sensing, we first investigate how choice sampling frequency & classification features affects, separately for each activity, "energy overhead" vs. "classification accuracy" tradeoff. We find that...

10.1109/iswc.2012.23 article EN 2012-06-01

With the large-scale adoption of GPS equipped mobile sensing devices, positional data generated by moving objects (e.g., vehicles, people, animals) are being easily collected. Such typically modeled as streams spatio-temporal (x,y,t) points, called trajectories . In recent years trajectory management research has progressed significantly towards efficient storage and indexing techniques, well suitable knowledge discovery. These works focused on geometric aspect raw mobility data. We now...

10.1145/2483669.2483682 article EN ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology 2013-06-01

Background With increased specialization of health care services and high levels patient mobility, accessing across multiple hospitals or clinics has become very common for diagnosis treatment, particularly patients with chronic diseases such as cancer. informed knowledge a patient’s history, physicians can make prompt clinical decisions smarter, safer, more efficient care. However, due to the privacy sensitivity electronic records (EHR), most EHR data sharing still happens through fax mail...

10.2196/13598 article EN cc-by Journal of Medical Internet Research 2020-05-30

article Share on P-Grid: a self-organizing structured P2P system Authors: Karl Aberer Distributed Information Systems Laboratory, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) (EPFL)View Profile , Philippe Cudré-Mauroux Anwitaman Datta Zoran Despotovic Manfred Hauswirth Magdalena Punceva Roman Schmidt Authors Info & Claims ACM SIGMOD RecordVolume 32Issue 3September 2003 pp 29–33https://doi.org/10.1145/945721.945729Published:01 September 2003Publication History...

10.1145/945721.945729 article EN ACM SIGMOD Record 2003-09-01

A key problem in current sensor network technology is the heterogeneity of available software and hardware platforms which makes deployment application development a tedious time consuming task. To minimize unnecessary repetitive implementation identical functionalities for different platforms, we present our Global Sensor Networks (GSN) middleware supports flexible integration discovery networks data, enables fast addition new provides distributed querying, filtering, combination dynamic...

10.5555/1182635.1164243 article EN Very Large Data Bases 2006-09-01

The authors present Gridella, a Gnutella-compatible P2P system. Gridella is based on the Peer-Grid (P-Grid) approach, which draws research in distributed and cooperative information systems to provide decentralized, scalable data access structure. improves highly chaotic inefficient Gnutella infrastructure with directed search advanced concepts, thus enhancing efficiency providing model for further analysis research.

10.1109/4236.978370 article EN IEEE Internet Computing 2002-01-01

This paper studies the problem of updates in decentralised and self-organising P2P systems which peers have low online probabilities only local knowledge. The update strategy we propose for this environment is based on a hybrid push/pull rumor spreading algorithm provides fully decentralised, efficient robust communication scheme offers probabilistic guarantees rather than ensuring strict consistency. We describe generic analytical model to investigate utility our propagation from...

10.1109/icdcs.2003.1203454 article EN 2004-06-22

GPS devices allow recording the movement track of moving object they are attached to. This data typically consists a stream spatio-temporal (x,y,t) points. For application purposes is transformed into finite subsequences called trajectories. Existing knowledge extraction algorithms defined for trajectories mainly assume specific context (e.g. vehicle movements) or analyze parts trajectory stops), in association with from chosen geographic sources points-of-interest, road networks). We...

10.1145/1951365.1951398 article EN 2011-03-21

Contexts and social network information have been proven to be valuable for building accurate recommender system. However, the best of our knowledge, no existing works systematically combine diverse types such further improve recommendation quality. In this paper, we propose SoCo, a novel context-aware system incorporating elaborately processed information. We handle contextual by applying random decision trees partition original user-item-rating matrix that ratings with similar contexts are...

10.1145/2488388.2488457 article EN 2013-05-13

Demand response (DR) has been known to play an important role in the electricity sector balance supply and demand. To this end, DR baseline is a key factor successful program since it influences incentive allocation mechanism customer participation. Previous studies have investigated accuracy bias for large, industrial commercial customers. However, analysis of performance residential customers received less attention. In paper, we analyze baselines Our goes beyond by understanding impact on...

10.1109/tsg.2014.2309053 article EN IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid 2014-03-19

Time series forecasting for streaming data plays an important role in many real applications, ranging from IoT systems, cyber-networks, to industrial systems and healthcare. However the is often complicated with anomalies change points, which can lead learned models deviating underlying patterns of time series, especially context online learning mode. In this paper we present adaptive gradient method recurrent neural networks (RNN) forecast presence points. We explore local features...

10.1109/dsaa.2016.92 article EN 2016-10-01

Privacy policies are the primary channel through which companies inform users about their data collection and sharing practices. These often long difficult to comprehend. Short notices based on information extracted from privacy have been shown be useful but face a significant scalability hurdle, given number of evolution over time. Companies, users, researchers, regulators still lack usable scalable tools cope with breadth depth policies. To address these hurdles, we propose an automated...

10.48550/arxiv.1802.02561 preprint EN other-oa arXiv (Cornell University) 2018-01-01

Sensor networks are increasingly being deployed in the environment for many different purposes. The observations that they produce made available with heterogeneous schemas, vocabularies and data formats, making it difficult to share reuse this data, other purposes than those which were originally set up. authors propose an ontology-based approach providing access query capabilities streaming sources, allowing users express their needs at a conceptual level, independent of implementation...

10.4018/jswis.2012010103 article EN International Journal on Semantic Web and Information Systems 2012-01-01

The recent development of smart meters has allowed the analysis household electricity consumption in real time. Predicting at such very low scales should help to increase efficiency distribution networks and energy pricing. However, this is by no means a trivial task since household-level much more irregular than transmission or levels. In work, we address problem improving forecasting using statistical relations between series. This done both district (hundreds houses), various machine...

10.1109/sustainit.2013.6685208 article EN 2013-10-01

The trend of time series characterizes the intermediate upward and downward behaviour series. Learning forecasting in data play an important role many real applications, ranging from resource allocation centers, load schedule smart grid, so on. Inspired by recent successes neural networks, this paper we propose TreNet, a novel end-to-end hybrid network to learn local global contextual features for predicting TreNet leverages convolutional networks (CNNs) extract salient raw Meanwhile,...

10.24963/ijcai.2017/316 article EN 2017-07-28
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