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SIGMOD
2008
ACM
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A graph method for keyword-based selection of the top-K databases
While database management systems offer a comprehensive solution to data storage, they require deep knowledge of the schema, as well as the data manipulation language, in order to...
Quang Hieu Vu, Beng Chin Ooi, Dimitris Papadias, A...
SIGMOD
2007
ACM
196views Database» more  SIGMOD 2007»
16 years 6 months ago
Adaptive location constraint processing
An important problem for many location-based applications is the continuous evaluation of proximity relations among moving objects. These relations express whether a given set of ...
Zhengdao Xu, Hans-Arno Jacobsen
ICFP
2008
ACM
16 years 6 months ago
A scheduling framework for general-purpose parallel languages
The trend in microprocessor design toward multicore and manycore processors means that future performance gains in software will largely come from harnessing parallelism. To reali...
Matthew Fluet, Mike Rainey, John H. Reppy
MOBISYS
2008
ACM
16 years 6 months ago
Efficient channel-aware rate adaptation in dynamic environments
Increasingly, 802.11 devices are being used by mobile users. This results in very dynamic wireless channels that are difficult to use efficiently. Current rate selection algorithm...
Glenn Judd, Xiaohui Wang, Peter Steenkiste
MOBISYS
2007
ACM
16 years 6 months ago
Improving mobile database access over wide-area networks without degrading consistency
We report on the design, implementation, and evaluation of a system called Cedar that enables mobile database access with good performance over low-bandwidth networks. This is acc...
Niraj Tolia, Mahadev Satyanarayanan, Adam Wolbach