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SIGMOD
2006
ACM
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16 years 6 months ago
Interactive query formulation over web service-accessed sources
Integration systems typically support only a restricted set of queries over the schema they export. The reason is that the participating information sources contribute limited con...
Michalis Petropoulos, Alin Deutsch, Yannis Papakon...
SIGMOD
2001
ACM
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16 years 6 months ago
The Network is the Database: Data Management for Highly Distributed Systems
This paper describes the methodology and implementation of a data management system for highly distributed systems, which was built to solve the scalability and reliability proble...
Julio C. Navas, Michael J. Wynblatt
EDBT
2004
ACM
119views Database» more  EDBT 2004»
16 years 6 months ago
NNH: Improving Performance of Nearest-Neighbor Searches Using Histograms
Efficient search for nearest neighbors (NN) is a fundamental problem arising in a large variety of applications of vast practical interest. In this paper we propose a novel techniq...
Liang Jin, Nick Koudas, Chen Li
PERCOM
2008
ACM
16 years 6 months ago
CoWSAMI: Interface-aware context gathering in ambient intelligence environments
In this paper we present CoWSAMI, a middleware infrastructure that enables context awareness in open ambient intelligence environments, consisting of mobile users and context sour...
Dionysis Athanasopoulos, Apostolos Zarras, Valéri...
IUI
2010
ACM
16 years 3 months ago
Speeding pointing in tiled widgets: understanding the effects of target expansion and misprediction
Target expansion is a pointing facilitation technique where the users target, typically an interface widget, is dynamically enlarged to speed pointing in interfaces. However, with...
Jaime Ruiz, Edward Lank