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CHI
2003
ACM
16 years 6 months ago
A fisheye calendar interface for PDAs: providing overviews for small displays
Calendar applications for small handheld devices such as PDAs are growing in popularity. This led us to develop FishCal, a novel calendar interface for PDAs. It supports users in ...
Benjamin B. Bederson, Aaron Clamage, Mary Czerwins...
SIGMOD
2005
ACM
141views Database» more  SIGMOD 2005»
16 years 6 months ago
Integrating databases and workflow systems
There has been an information explosion in fields of science such as high energy physics, astronomy, environmental sciences and biology. There is a critical need for automated sys...
Srinath Shankar, Ameet Kini, David J. DeWitt, Jeff...
SIGMOD
2004
ACM
161views Database» more  SIGMOD 2004»
16 years 6 months ago
Approximation Techniques for Spatial Data
Spatial Database Management Systems (SDBMS), e.g., Geographical Information Systems, that manage spatial objects such as points, lines, and hyper-rectangles, often have very high ...
Abhinandan Das, Johannes Gehrke, Mirek Riedewald
SIGMOD
2003
ACM
140views Database» more  SIGMOD 2003»
16 years 6 months ago
A Comprehensive XQuery to SQL Translation using Dynamic Interval Encoding
The W3C XQuery language recommendation, based on a hierarchical and ordered document model, supports a wide variety of constructs and use cases. There is a diversity of approaches...
David DeHaan, David Toman, Mariano P. Consens, M. ...
EDBT
2006
ACM
121views Database» more  EDBT 2006»
16 years 6 months ago
A Decomposition-Based Probabilistic Framework for Estimating the Selectivity of XML Twig Queries
In this paper we present a novel approach for estimating the selectivity of XML twig queries. Such a technique is useful for approximate query answering as well as for determining...
Chao Wang, Srinivasan Parthasarathy, Ruoming Jin