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IJMMS
1998
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15 years 6 months ago
Brahms: simulating practice for work systems design
A continuing problem in business today is the design of human-computer systems that respect how work actually gets done. The overarching context of work consists of activities, wh...
William J. Clancey, Patricia Sachs, Maarten Sierhu...
BTW
2005
Springer
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16 years 5 days ago
A Learning Optimizer for a Federated Database Management System
: Optimizers in modern DBMSs utilize a cost model to choose an efficient query execution plan (QEP) among all possible ones for a given query. The accuracy of the cost estimates de...
Stephan Ewen, Michael Ortega-Binderberger, Volker ...
DATE
2004
IEEE
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15 years 10 months ago
Energy-Aware System Design for Wireless Multimedia
In this paper, we present various challenges that arise in the delivery and exchange of multimedia information to mobile devices. Specifically, we focus on techniques for maintain...
Hans Van Antwerpen, Nikil D. Dutt, Rajesh K. Gupta...
CHI
2006
ACM
16 years 7 months ago
Participatory design with proxies: developing a desktop-PDA system to support people with aphasia
In this paper, we describe the design and preliminary evaluation of a hybrid desktop-handheld system developed to support individuals with aphasia, a disorder which impairs the ab...
Jordan L. Boyd-Graber, Sonya S. Nikolova, Karyn Mo...
CIKM
2009
Springer
16 years 1 months ago
SPIDER: a system for scalable, parallel / distributed evaluation of large-scale RDF data
RDF is a data model for representing labeled directed graphs, and it is used as an important building block of semantic web. Due to its flexibility and applicability, RDF has bee...
Hyunsik Choi, Jihoon Son, YongHyun Cho, Min Kyoung...