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CASCON
1992
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15 years 1 months ago
Overview of multidatabase transaction management
A multidatabase system (MDBS) is a facility that allows users access to data located in multiple autonomous database management systems (DBMSs). In such a system, globaltransaction...
Yuri Breitbart, Hector Garcia-Molina, Abraham Silb...
ICDCS
2007
IEEE
15 years 3 months ago
Understanding Instant Messaging Traffic Characteristics
Instant messaging (IM) has become increasingly popular due to its quick response time, its ease of use, and possibility of multitasking. It is estimated that there are several mil...
Zhen Xiao, Lei Guo, John M. Tracey
GIS
2005
ACM
16 years 26 days ago
Close pair queries in moving object databases
Databases of moving objects are important for air traffic control, ground traffic, and battlefield configurations. We introduce the (historical and spatial) range close-pair query...
Panfeng Zhou, Donghui Zhang, Betty Salzberg, Gene ...
CHI
2009
ACM
16 years 12 days ago
Taking the time to care: empowering low health literacy hospital patients with virtual nurse agents
Ninety million Americans have inadequate health literacy, resulting in a reduced ability to read and follow directions in the healthcare environment. We describe an animated, empa...
Timothy W. Bickmore, Laura M. Pfeifer, Brian W. Ja...
VLDB
2004
ACM
103views Database» more  VLDB 2004»
15 years 5 months ago
WIC: A General-Purpose Algorithm for Monitoring Web Information Sources
The Web is becoming a universal information dissemination medium, due to a number of factors including its support for content dynamicity. A growing number of Web information prov...
Sandeep Pandey, Kedar Dhamdhere, Christopher Olsto...