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SIGMOD
2006
ACM
114views Database» more  SIGMOD 2006»
15 years 11 months ago
Integrating compression and execution in column-oriented database systems
Column-oriented database system architectures invite a reevaluation of how and when data in databases is compressed. Storing data in a column-oriented fashion greatly increases th...
Daniel J. Abadi, Samuel Madden, Miguel Ferreira
PERCOM
2006
ACM
15 years 10 months ago
Situation Determination with Reusable Situation Specifications
Automatically determining the situation of an ad-hoc group of people and devices within a smart environment is a significant challenge in pervasive computing systems. Current appr...
Graham Thomson, Sotirios Terzis, Paddy Nixon
PERCOM
2005
ACM
15 years 10 months ago
A Dynamic Lightweight Platform for Ad-Hoc Infrastructures
Mobile devices like PDAs or mobile phones have become widespread. Similarly, network functionality like GSM, Bluetooth, or WLAN has become standard. Nevertheless, not many applica...
Andreas Frei, Gustavo Alonso
ICCD
2005
IEEE
107views Hardware» more  ICCD 2005»
15 years 8 months ago
Hardware Support for Bulk Data Movement in Server Platforms
Bulk data movement occurs commonly in server workloads and their performance is rather poor on today’s microprocessors. We propose the use of small dedicated copy engines, and p...
Li Zhao, Ravi R. Iyer, Srihari Makineni, Laxmi N. ...
WWW
2010
ACM
15 years 6 months ago
The anatomy of a large-scale social search engine
We present Aardvark, a social search engine. With Aardvark, users ask a question, either by instant message, email, web input, text message, or voice. Aardvark then routes the que...
Damon Horowitz, Sepandar D. Kamvar