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CHI
2001
ACM
16 years 1 days ago
Sensetable: a wireless object tracking platform for tangible user interfaces
In this paper we present a system that electromagnetically tracks the positions and orientations of multiple wireless objects on a tabletop display surface. The system offers two ...
James Patten, Hiroshi Ishii, Jim Hines, Gian Panga...
OSDI
2006
ACM
15 years 12 months ago
Fidelity and Yield in a Volcano Monitoring Sensor Network
We present a science-centric evaluation of a 19-day sensor network deployment at Reventador, an active volcano in Ecuador. Each of the 16 sensors continuously sampled seismic and ...
Geoffrey Werner-Allen, Konrad Lorincz, Jeff Johnso...
OSDI
2004
ACM
15 years 12 months ago
Microreboot - A Technique for Cheap Recovery
A significant fraction of software failures in large-scale Internet systems are cured by rebooting, even when the exact failure causes are unknown. However, rebooting can be expen...
George Candea, Shinichi Kawamoto, Yuichi Fujiki, G...
SIGMOD
2004
ACM
122views Database» more  SIGMOD 2004»
15 years 12 months ago
Adapting to Source Properties in Processing Data Integration Queries
An effective query optimizer finds a query plan that exploits the characteristics of the source data. In data integration, little is known in advance about sources' propertie...
Zachary G. Ives, Alon Y. Halevy, Daniel S. Weld
EDBT
2004
ACM
94views Database» more  EDBT 2004»
15 years 11 months ago
Mining Extremely Skewed Trading Anomalies
Trading surveillance systems screen and detect anomalous trades of equity, bonds, mortgage certificates among others. This is to satisfy federal trading regulations as well as to p...
Wei Fan, Philip S. Yu, Haixun Wang