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most citedSecuring Federated Sensitive Topic Classification against Poisoning Attacks

16 citations · 37 across the 6 of their papers we have counts for

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7 papers

cs.CR2023★ 1 cited

FreqyWM: Frequency Watermarking for the New Data Economy

Devriş İşler, Elisa Cabana, Alvaro Garcia-Recuero +2

We present a novel technique for modulating the appearance frequency of a few tokens within a dataset for encoding an invisible watermark that can be used to protect ownership righ…

cs.CR2022★ 16 cited

Securing Federated Sensitive Topic Classification against Poisoning Attacks

Tianyue Chu, Alvaro Garcia-Recuero, Costas Iordanou +2

We present a Federated Learning (FL) based solution for building a distributed classifier capable of detecting URLs containing GDPR-sensitive content related to categories such as…

cs.DS2021

Approximate Privacy-Preserving Neighbourhood Estimations

Alvaro Garcia-Recuero

Anonymous social networks present a number of new and challenging problems for existing Social Network Analysis techniques. Traditionally, existing methods for analysing graph stru…

cs.CY2018★ 7 cited

Trollslayer: Crowdsourcing and Characterization of Abusive Birds in Twitter

Alvaro Garcia-Recuero, Aneta Morawin, Gareth Tyson

As of today, abuse is a pressing issue to participants and administrators of Online Social Networks (OSN). Abuse in Twitter can spawn from arguments generated for influencing outco…

cs.CY2018

Movie Pirates of the Caribbean: Exploring Illegal Streaming Cyberlockers

Damilola Ibosiola, Benjamin Steer, Alvaro Garcia-Recuero +3

Online video piracy (OVP) is a contentious topic, with strong proponents on both sides of the argument. Recently, a number of illegal websites, called streaming cyberlockers, have…

cs.DC2015★ 1 cited

On the energy efficiency of client-centric data consistency management under random read/write access to Big Data with Apache HBase

Álvaro García-Recuero

The total estimated energy bill for data centers in 2010 was $11.5 billion, and experts estimate that the energy cost of a typical data center doubles every five years. On the oth…

cs.DC2014★ 12 cited

Quality-of-Data for Consistency Levels in Geo-replicated Cloud Data Stores

Álvaro García-Recuero, Sérgio Esteves, Luís Veiga

Cloud computing has recently emerged as a key technology to provide individuals and companies with access to remote computing and storage infrastructures. In order to achieve highl…