Instant messaging (IM) in the workplace has proven to be a valuable tool for facilitating informal communication. Its benefits, however, are generally limited to times when users ...
The query models of the recent generation of very large scale distributed (VLSD) shared-nothing data storage systems, including our own PNUTS and others (e.g. BigTable, Dynamo, Ca...
Parag Agrawal, Adam Silberstein, Brian F. Cooper, ...
Relational database systems have been the dominating technology to manage and analyze large data warehouses. Moreover, the ER model, the standard in database design, has a close r...
Carlos Ordonez, Il-Yeol Song, Carlos Garcia-Alvara...
The rapid development of handheld devices is driving the development of new interaction styles. This paper examines one such technique: using hand motions to control a menu system...
As the most pervasive method of individual identification and document authentication, signatures present convincing evidence and provide an important form of indexing for effectiv...