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20152025
most citedThe light pollution as a surrogate for urban population of the US cities

24 citations · 32 across the 6 of their papers we have counts for

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6 papers

cs.LG2025★ 1 cited

Evaluating LLMs and Prompting Strategies for Automated Hardware Diagnosis from Textual User-Reports

Carlos Caminha, Maria de Lourdes M. Silva, Iago C. Chaves +3

Computer manufacturers offer platforms for users to describe device faults using textual reports such as "My screen is flickering". Identifying the faulty component from the report…

cs.CL2025

Classification of User Reports for Detection of Faulty Computer Components using NLP Models: A Case Study

Maria de Lourdes M. Silva, André L. C. Mendonça, Eduardo R. D. Neto +4

Computer manufacturers typically offer platforms for users to report faults. However, there remains a significant gap in these platforms' ability to effectively utilize textual rep…

cs.CR2025

Differentially Private Multi-objective Selection: Pareto and Aggregation Approaches

Victor A. E. Farias, Felipe T. Brito, Cheryl Flynn +2

Differentially private selection mechanisms are fundamental building blocks for privacy-preserving data analysis. While numerous mechanisms exist for single-objective selection, ma…

cs.CR2020★ 6 cited

Local Dampening: Differential Privacy for Non-numeric Queries via Local Sensitivity

Victor A. E. Farias, Felipe T. Brito, Cheryl Flynn +3

Differential privacy is the state-of-the-art formal definition for data release under strong privacy guarantees. A variety of mechanisms have been proposed in the literature for re…

physics.soc-ph2017★ 24 cited

The light pollution as a surrogate for urban population of the US cities

Felipe G. Operti, Erneson A. Oliveira, Humberto A. Carmona +2

We show that the definition of the city boundaries can have a dramatic influence on the scaling behavior of the night-time light (NTL) as a function of population (POP) in the US.…

cs.DB2015★ 1 cited

Optimal Time-dependent Sequenced Route Queries in Road Networks

Camila F. Costa, Mario A. Nascimento, Jose A. F. Macedo +3

In this paper we present an algorithm for optimal processing of time-dependent sequenced route queries in road networks, i.e., given a road network where the travel time over an ed…