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SENSYS
2010
ACM
15 years 4 months ago
Cooperative transit tracking using smart-phones
Real-time transit tracking is gaining popularity as a means for transit agencies to improve the rider experience. However, many transit agencies lack either the funding or initiat...
Arvind Thiagarajan, James Biagioni, Tomas Gerlich,...
FAST
2009
15 years 4 months ago
Enabling Transactional File Access via Lightweight Kernel Extensions
Transactions offer a powerful data-access method used in many databases today trough a specialized query API. User applications, however, use a different fileaccess API (POSIX) wh...
Richard P. Spillane, Sachin Gaikwad, Manjunath Chi...
CASCON
2010
174views Education» more  CASCON 2010»
15 years 4 months ago
Smart Services Across the Real and Virtual Worlds
Today, we are witnessing a new level of scale, complexity, and pervasiveness of software systems that are designed to support much more holistically complex processes. Much richer...
Eleni Stroulia
SIGMOD
2008
ACM
145views Database» more  SIGMOD 2008»
16 years 6 months ago
Optimizing complex queries with multiple relation instances
Today's query processing engines do not take advantage of the multiple occurrences of a relation in a query to improve performance. Instead, each instance is treated as a dis...
Yu Cao, Gopal C. Das, Chee Yong Chan, Kian-Lee Tan
SIGSOFT
2006
ACM
16 years 7 months ago
User guidance for creating precise and accessible property specifications
Property specifications concisely describe aspects of what a system is supposed to do. No matter what notation is used to describe them, however, it is difficult to represent thes...
Rachel L. Cobleigh, George S. Avrunin, Lori A. Cla...