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CHI
2010
ACM
16 years 1 months ago
Children's roles using keyword search interfaces at home
Children want to find information about their world, but there are barriers to finding what they seek. Young people have varying abilities to formulate complex queries and compreh...
Allison Druin, Elizabeth Foss, Hilary Hutchinson, ...
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DBISP2P
2003
Springer
70views Database» more  DBISP2P 2003»
15 years 12 months ago
A Robust Logical and Computational Characterisation of Peer-to-Peer Database Systems
In this paper we give a robust logical and computational characterisation of peer-to-peer (p2p) database systems. We first define a precise model-theoretic semantics of a p2p sys...
Enrico Franconi, Gabriel M. Kuper, Andrei Lopatenk...
DLOG
2007
15 years 9 months ago
Adding ABoxes to a Description Logic with Uniqueness Constraints via Path Agreements
We now know that the addition of a concept constructor called a Path Functional Dependency (PFD) to the Boolean-complete description logic DLF leads to undecidability of ABox consi...
Vitaliy L. Khizder, David Toman, Grant E. Weddell
SPIESR
1997
143views Database» more  SPIESR 1997»
15 years 8 months ago
Similarity Evaluation in Image Retrieval Using Simple Features
The development of increasingly complex multimedia applications calls for new methodologies for the organization and retrieval of still images and video sequences. Query and retri...
Eugenio Di Sciascio, Augusto Celentano
CORR
2008
Springer
114views Education» more  CORR 2008»
15 years 6 months ago
Dynamic index selection in data warehouses
Analytical queries defined on data warehouses are complex and use several join operations that are very costly, especially when run on very large data volumes. To improve response...
Stéphane Azefack, Kamel Aouiche, Jér...