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COOPIS
2002
IEEE
15 years 4 months ago
Efficient Querying of Distributed Resources in Mediator Systems
: This work investigates the integration of heterogeneous resources, such as data and programs, in a fully distributed peer-to-peer mediation architecture. The challenge in making ...
Ioana Manolescu, Luc Bouganim, Françoise Fa...
ICDIM
2007
IEEE
15 years 5 months ago
Fast Send Protocol - minimizing sending time in high-speed bulk data transfers
Over the last decades Internet traffic has grown dramatically. Besides the number of transfers, data sizes have risen as well. Traditional transfer protocols do not adapt to this...
Christoph Koch, Tilmann Rabl, Günther Hö...
SIGIR
2005
ACM
15 years 4 months ago
Automated evaluation of search engine performance via implicit user feedback
Measuring the information retrieval effectiveness of Web search engines can be expensive if human relevance judgments are required to evaluate search results. Using implicit user ...
Himanshu Sharma, Bernard J. Jansen
HUC
2004
Springer
15 years 4 months ago
MouseField: A Simple and Versatile Input Device for Ubiquitous Computing
Although various interaction technologies for handling information in the ubiquitous computing environment have been proposed, some techniques are too simple for performing rich in...
Toshiyuki Masui, Koji Tsukada, Itiro Siio
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VLDB
1998
ACM
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15 years 3 months ago
Filtering with Approximate Predicates
Approximate predicates can be used to reduce the number of comparisons made by expensive, complex predicates. For example, to check if a point is within a region (expensive predic...
Narayanan Shivakumar, Hector Garcia-Molina, Chandr...