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SIGMOD
2008
ACM
131views Database» more  SIGMOD 2008»
16 years 6 months ago
Discovering topical structures of databases
The increasing complexity of enterprise databases and the prevalent lack of documentation incur significant cost in both understanding and integrating the databases. Existing solu...
Wensheng Wu, Berthold Reinwald, Yannis Sismanis, R...
NETWORKING
2011
14 years 9 months ago
Epidemic Spread in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks: Determining the Tipping Point
Short-range, point-to-point communications for mobile users enjoy increasing popularity, particularly with the rise in Bluetooth-equipped mobile devices. Unfortunately, virus write...
Nicholas Valler, B. Aditya Prakash, Hanghang Tong,...
PPOPP
2009
ACM
16 years 6 months ago
A comprehensive strategy for contention management in software transactional memory
In Software Transactional Memory (STM), contention management refers to the mechanisms used to ensure forward progress-to avoid livelock and starvation, and to promote throughput ...
Michael F. Spear, Luke Dalessandro, Virendra J. Ma...
EDBT
2009
ACM
136views Database» more  EDBT 2009»
16 years 1 months ago
Rule-based multi-query optimization
Data stream management systems usually have to process many long-running queries that are active at the same time. Multiple queries can be evaluated more efficiently together tha...
Mingsheng Hong, Mirek Riedewald, Christoph Koch, J...
MM
2006
ACM
103views Multimedia» more  MM 2006»
16 years 7 days ago
Progressive cut
Recently, interactive image cutout technique becomes prevalent for image segmentation problem due to its easy-to-use nature. However, most existing stroke-based interactive object...
Chao Wang, Qiong Yang, Mo Chen, Xiaoou Tang, Zhong...