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BTW
2009
Springer
132views Database» more  BTW 2009»
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A Bayesian Approach to Estimating the Selectivity of Conjunctive Predicates
: Cost-based optimizers in relational databases make use of data statistics to estimate intermediate result cardinalities. Those cardinalities are needed to estimate access plan co...
M. Heimel, Volker Markl, Keshava Murthy
CMMR
2009
Springer
190views Music» more  CMMR 2009»
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From Signal to Substance and Back: Insights from Environmental Sound Research to Auditory Display Design
A persistent concern in the field of auditory display design has been how to effectively use environmental sounds, which are naturally occurring familiar non-speech, non-musical s...
Brian Gygi, Valeriy Shafiro
GEOS
2009
Springer
15 years 4 months ago
Towards Reasoning Pragmatics
Abstract. The realization of Semantic Web reasoning is central to substantiating the Semantic Web vision. However, current mainstream research on this topic faces serious challenge...
Pascal Hitzler
ACMDIS
2000
ACM
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PaperButtons: Expanding a Tangible User Interface
: Expanding the functionality of a successful system is always a challenge; the initial simplicity and ease-of-use is easily lost in the process. Experience indicates that this pro...
Elin Rønby Pedersen, Tomas Sokoler, Les Nel...
GW
1999
Springer
157views Biometrics» more  GW 1999»
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The Ecological Approach to Multimodal System Design
Following the ecological approach to visual perception, this paper presents a framework that emphasizes the role of vision on referring actions. In particular, affordances are util...
Antonella De Angeli, Frederic Wolff, Laurent Romar...