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SIGMOD
2003
ACM
136views Database» more  SIGMOD 2003»
16 years 28 days ago
A Characterization of the Sensitivity of Query Optimization to Storage Access Cost Parameters
Most relational query optimizers make use of information about the costs of accessing tuples and data structures on various storage devices. This information can at times be off b...
Frederick Reiss, Tapas Kanungo
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SP
2002
IEEE
117views Security Privacy» more  SP 2002»
15 years 13 days ago
Grids: The top ten questions
The design and implementation of a national computing system and data grid has become a reachable goal from both the computer science and computational science point of view. A di...
Jennifer M. Schopf, Bill Nitzberg
102
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MOBISYS
2007
ACM
16 years 12 days ago
Improving mobile database access over wide-area networks without degrading consistency
We report on the design, implementation, and evaluation of a system called Cedar that enables mobile database access with good performance over low-bandwidth networks. This is acc...
Niraj Tolia, Mahadev Satyanarayanan, Adam Wolbach
MOBICOM
2004
ACM
15 years 6 months ago
Exploiting medium access diversity in rate adaptive wireless LANs
Recent years have seen the growing popularity of multi-rate wireless network devices (e.g., 802.11a cards) that can exploit variations in channel conditions and improve overall ne...
Zhengrong Ji, Yi Yang, Junlan Zhou, Mineo Takai, R...
SIGCSE
2009
ACM
114views Education» more  SIGCSE 2009»
16 years 1 months ago
Engaging students through mobile game development
This paper describes using mobile game development as a motivational tool to engage students early in the curriculum. Mobile devices have become an integral part of everyday lives...
Stan Kurkovsky