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SIGMOD
2010
ACM
214views Database» more  SIGMOD 2010»
15 years 9 months ago
ParaTimer: a progress indicator for MapReduce DAGs
Time-oriented progress estimation for parallel queries is a challenging problem that has received only limited attention. In this paper, we present ParaTimer, a new type of timere...
Kristi Morton, Magdalena Balazinska, Dan Grossman
BMCBI
2011
14 years 11 months ago
Dr. PIAS: an integrative system for assessing the druggability of protein-protein interactions
Background: The amount of data on protein-protein interactions (PPIs) available in public databases and in the literature has rapidly expanded in recent years. PPI data can provid...
Nobuyoshi Sugaya, Toshio Furuya
KDD
2012
ACM
212views Data Mining» more  KDD 2012»
13 years 7 months ago
Harnessing the wisdom of the crowds for accurate web page clipping
Clipping Web pages, namely extracting the informative clips (areas) from Web pages, has many applications, such as Web printing and e-reading on small handheld devices. Although m...
Lei Zhang, Linpeng Tang, Ping Luo, Enhong Chen, Li...
CVPR
2004
IEEE
16 years 6 months ago
Estimating Illumination Direction from Textured Images
We study the problem of estimating the illuminant's direction from images of textured surfaces. Given an isotropic, Gaussian random surface with constant albedo, Koenderink an...
Manik Varma, Andrew Zisserman
ICDE
2006
IEEE
98views Database» more  ICDE 2006»
16 years 5 months ago
Space-Partitioning Trees in PostgreSQL: Realization and Performance
Many evolving database applications warrant the use of non-traditional indexing mechanisms beyond B+-trees and hash tables. SP-GiST is an extensible indexing framework that broade...
Mohamed Y. Eltabakh, Ramy Eltarras, Walid G. Aref