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CHI
2011
ACM
14 years 10 months ago
Enhancing independence and safety for blind and deaf-blind public transit riders
Blind and deaf-blind people often rely on public transit for everyday mobility, but using transit can be challenging for them. We conducted semi-structured interviews with 13 blin...
Shiri Azenkot, Sanjana Prasain, Alan Borning, Emil...
SIGMOD
2007
ACM
149views Database» more  SIGMOD 2007»
16 years 6 months ago
A data-oriented survey of context models
Context-aware systems are pervading everyday life, therefore context modeling is becoming a relevant issue and an expanding research field. This survey has the goal to provide a c...
Cristiana Bolchini, Carlo Curino, Elisa Quintarell...
ICDE
2007
IEEE
99views Database» more  ICDE 2007»
16 years 1 months ago
A QoS-based Service Composition for Content Adaptation
Today’s Internet suffers from the problem of heterogeneity in client devices, network connectivity, content format, and users’ preferences. The framework presented in this pap...
Khalil El-Khatib, Gregor von Bochmann, Abdulmotale...
CIARP
2006
Springer
15 years 10 months ago
Gender Classification of Faces Using Adaboost
In this work it is described a framework for classifying face images using Adaboost and domain-partitioning based classifiers. The most interesting aspect of this framework is the ...
Rodrigo Verschae, Javier Ruiz-del-Solar, Mauricio ...
BTW
2003
Springer
94views Database» more  BTW 2003»
15 years 12 months ago
The Paradigm of Relational Indexing: a Survey
Abstract: In order to achieve efficient execution plans for queries comprising userdefined data types and predicates, the database system has to be provided with appropriate index ...
Hans-Peter Kriegel, Martin Pfeifle, Marco Pöt...