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2008
ACM
16 years 1 months ago
Efficient channel-aware rate adaptation in dynamic environments
Increasingly, 802.11 devices are being used by mobile users. This results in very dynamic wireless channels that are difficult to use efficiently. Current rate selection algorithm...
Glenn Judd, Xiaohui Wang, Peter Steenkiste
MMS
2008
15 years 1 months ago
Semantic interactive image retrieval combining visual and conceptual content description
We address the challenge of semantic gap reduction for image retrieval through an improved SVM-based active relevance feedback framework, together with a hybrid visual and concept...
Marin Ferecatu, Nozha Boujemaa, Michel Crucianu
GIS
2008
ACM
16 years 3 months ago
Discovering controlling factors of geospatial variables
Efficient means of determining factors controlling spatial distribution of an environmental class variable are of significant interest in Earth science. In this paper, we present ...
Tomasz F. Stepinski, Wei Ding 0003, Christoph F. E...
SIGSOFT
2008
ACM
16 years 2 months ago
Towards compositional synthesis of evolving systems
Synthesis of system configurations from a given set of features is an important and very challenging problem. This paper makes a step towards this goal by describing an efficient ...
Shiva Nejati, Mehrdad Sabetzadeh, Marsha Chechik, ...
WWW
2009
ACM
16 years 2 months ago
Why is the web loosely coupled?: a multi-faceted metric for service design
Loose coupling is often quoted as a desirable property of systems architectures. One of the main goals of building systems using Web technologies is to achieve loose coupling. How...
Cesare Pautasso, Erik Wilde