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PVLDB
2010
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15 years 5 months ago
Runtime Measurements in the Cloud: Observing, Analyzing, and Reducing Variance
One of the main reasons why cloud computing has gained so much popularity is due to its ease of use and its ability to scale computing resources on demand. As a result, users can ...
Jörg Schad, Jens Dittrich, Jorge-Arnulfo Quia...
CVPR
2008
IEEE
16 years 9 months ago
Shading models for illumination and reflectance invariant shape detectors
Many objects have smooth surfaces of a fairly uniform color, thereby exhibiting shading patterns that reveal information about its shape, an important clue to the nature of the ob...
Peter Nillius, Josephine Sullivan, Antonis A. Argy...
ACMACE
2009
ACM
16 years 1 months ago
Funbrella: recording and replaying vibrations through an umbrella axis
We propose an umbrella-like device called Funbrella that entertains people with many types of rain by focusing on an umbrella as a user interface that connects humans and rain. Ge...
Kazuyuki Fujita, Yuichi Itoh, Ai Yoshida, Maya Oza...
C5
2005
IEEE
16 years 20 days ago
Suggestions for New Features to Support Collaborative Learning in Virtual Worlds
The authors have some experience in building virtual worlds for education purposes, in archaeology and for language learning. However, many mainstream world-building applications ...
Erik Champion, Sachiyo Sekiguchi
IDEAS
2008
IEEE
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16 years 1 months ago
Pruning attribute values from data cubes with diamond dicing
Data stored in a data warehouse are inherently multidimensional, but most data-pruning techniques (such as iceberg and top-k queries) are unidimensional. However, analysts need to...
Hazel Webb, Owen Kaser, Daniel Lemire