An Enhanced Location Scattering Based Privacy Protection Scheme
Consumer privacy-preserving is a major concern in location-based services (LBSs). The paramount problem in LBSs is the disclosure of a user’s actual location while interacting with the location-based service provider (LSP).
Nisha Nisha +2 more
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Using Dummy Locations to Conceal Whereabouts of Mobile Users in Location-Based Services
Location-based services are extremely popular in these days. Mobile users use the services such as GPS and Google Maps almost every day to assist their daily activities like finding a restaurant or looking for an apartment. However, in order to use the services, users have to share their location information with the service providers. This requirement
Sanjaikanth E Vadakkethil Somanathan Pillai +1 more
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Privacy-preserving location-based traffic density monitoring
Traffic density monitoring is an important method to predict road traffic conditions, which can bring some convenience to people's travel in daily life.
Lei Wu +4 more
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Valuing iconic design: Frank Lloyd Wright architecture in Oak Park, Illinois [PDF]
This study investigates the willingness of homebuyers to pay for co-location with iconic architecture. Oak Park, Illinois was chosen as the study area given its unique claim of having 24 residential structures designed by world-famous American architect ...
Ahlfeldt, Gabriel M., Mastro, Alexandra
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Hedonic Price Indices for the Paris Housing Market [PDF]
In this paper, we calculate a transaction-based price index for apartments in Paris (France). The heterogeneous character of real estate is taken into account using an hedonic model. The functional form is specified using a general Box-Cox function.
Maurer, Raimund +2 more
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Smart Privacy Protection for Location-Based Services using Queueing Modelling [PDF]
In the digital era, we are greatly dependent on the popular applications of the Location Based Services (LBS) in our day-to-day activities. The smart phone comes with a variety of applications which acquire the user location and build up user profile ...
Jeetesh Chamana H Ram Sai +3 more
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Barriers to Investment by Russian Firms: Property Protection or Credit Constraints? [PDF]
A multitude of explanations for low investment by Russian firms have been offered: high inflation, high interest rates, falling production, falling GDP, an underdeveloped banking system, a confiscatory tax regime, calls for the re-nationalization of ...
Linz, Susan J.
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Location-sharing protocol for privacy protection in mobile online social networks
Location-based services are becoming more and more popular in mobile online social networks (mOSNs) for smart cities, but users’ privacy also has aroused widespread concern, such as locations, friend sets and other private information.
Ou Ruan, Lixiao Zhang, Yuanyuan Zhang
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A Novel Deception-Based Scheme to Secure the Location Information for IoBT Entities
The Internet of Battlefield Things (IoBT) is a subdomain of the Internet of Things (IoT) that applies to a battlefield. Due to the limited communication infrastructure, the entities in the battlefield communicate with each other using Device-2-Device ...
Basmh Alkanjr, Imad Mahgoub
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The Role of Headquarters Firms in Multinational Profit Shifting Strategies [PDF]
This paper stresses the special role of multinational headquarters in corporate profit shifting strategies. Using a large panel of European firms, we show that multinational enterprises (MNEs) are reluctant to shift profits away from their headquarters ...
Dischinger, Matthias, Riedel, Nadine
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