Information workers often have to balance many tasks and interruptions. In this work, we explore peripheral display techniques that improve multitasking efficiency by helping user...
Tara Matthews, Mary Czerwinski, George G. Robertso...
This paper evaluates the suitability of the MapReduce model for multi-core and multi-processor systems. MapReduce was created by Google for application development on data-centers...
Abstract The notorious "dimensionality curse" is a wellknown phenomenon for any multi-dimensional indexes attempting to scale up to high dimensions. One well-known approa...
We investigate the problem of how to evaluate efficiently a collection of shortest path queries on massive graphs that are too big to fit in the main memory. To evaluate a shortes...
Geographic web search engines allow users to constrain and order search results in an intuitive manner by focusing a query on a particular geographic region. Geographic search tec...