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ICDCS
2006
IEEE
15 years 3 months ago
Fast data access over asymmetric channels using fair and secure bandwidth sharing
We propose a peer-to-peer architecture designed to overcome asymmetries in upload/download speeds that are typical in end-user dialup, broadband and cellular wireless Internet con...
Sachin Agarwal, Moshe Laifenfeld, Ari Trachtenberg...
OZCHI
2006
ACM
15 years 3 months ago
Holding hands over a distance: technology probes in an intimate, mobile context
While apart, couples can verbally and visually communicate through existing technologies such as mobile phones, text messaging, videoconferencing and email. Yet, other important m...
Shannon O'Brien, Florian Mueller
SSD
2001
Springer
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15 years 2 months ago
Design and Implementation of Multi-scale Databases
The need to access spatial data at multiple levels of detail is a fundamental requirement of many applications of geographical information, yet conventional spatial database access...
Sheng Zhou, Christopher B. Jones
ISD
1999
Springer
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15 years 2 months ago
Spatial Pictogram Enhanced Conceptual Data Models and Their Translation to Logical Data Models
The successful development of any geographic information system project needs the careful design and implementation of spatial databases via conceptual and logical data-modeling. T...
Shashi Shekhar, Ranga Raju Vatsavai, Sanjay Chawla...
COMPGEOM
1997
ACM
15 years 2 months ago
Realistic Input Models for Geometric Algorithms
Many algorithms developed in computational geometry are needlessly complicated and slow because they have to be prepared for very complicated, hypothetical inputs. To avoid this, ...
Mark de Berg, Matthew J. Katz, A. Frank van der St...