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ICDE
2009
IEEE
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16 years 8 months ago
Keyword Search in Spatial Databases: Towards Searching by Document
This work addresses a novel spatial keyword query called the m-closest keywords (mCK) query. Given a database of spatial objects, each tuple is associated with some descriptive inf...
Dongxiang Zhang, Yeow Meng Chee, Anirban Mondal, A...
WWW
2007
ACM
16 years 7 months ago
Improving the Performance of Online Auctions Through Server-side Activity-based Caching
Online auction sites have very specific workloads and user behavior characteristics. Previous studies on workload characterization conducted by the authors showed that i) bidding a...
Daniel A. Menascé, Vasudeva Akula
CHI
2009
ACM
16 years 7 months ago
soft(n): toward a somaesthetics of touch
This paper explores the concept of somaesthetics as an approach to the design of expressive interaction. This concept is exemplified through the design process of soft(n), an inte...
Thecla Schiphorst
SIGMOD
2006
ACM
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16 years 6 months ago
Communication-efficient distributed monitoring of thresholded counts
Monitoring is an issue of primary concern in current and next generation networked systems. For example, the objective of sensor networks is to monitor their surroundings for a va...
Ram Keralapura, Graham Cormode, Jeyashankher Ramam...
SIGMOD
2005
ACM
145views Database» more  SIGMOD 2005»
16 years 6 months ago
Stratified Computation of Skylines with Partially-Ordered Domains
In this paper, we study the evaluation of skyline queries with partially-ordered attributes. Because such attributes lack a total ordering, traditional index-based evaluation algo...
Chee Yong Chan, Pin-Kwang Eng, Kian-Lee Tan