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DL
1999
Springer
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15 years 8 months ago
Does Zooming Improve Image Browsing?
We describe an image retrieval system we built based on a Zoomable User Interface (ZUI). We also discuss the design, results and analysis of a controlled experiment we performed o...
Tammara T. A. Combs, Benjamin B. Bederson
EPEW
2006
Springer
15 years 7 months ago
Precise Regression Benchmarking with Random Effects: Improving Mono Benchmark Results
Benchmarking as a method of assessing software performance is known to suffer from random fluctuations that distort the observed performance. In this paper, we focus on the fluctua...
Tomás Kalibera, Petr Tuma
HPDC
2010
IEEE
15 years 4 months ago
Improving the Hadoop map/reduce framework to support concurrent appends through the BlobSeer BLOB management system
Hadoop is a reference software framework supporting the Map/Reduce programming model. It relies on the Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS) as its primary storage system. Althoug...
Diana Moise, Gabriel Antoniu, Luc Bougé
GRAPHICSINTERFACE
2011
14 years 7 months ago
Improving revisitation in graphs through static spatial features
People generally remember locations in visual spaces with respect to spatial features and landmarks. Geographical maps provide many spatial features and hence are easy to remember...
Sohaib Ghani, Niklas Elmqvist
CIKM
2011
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
Improved answer ranking in social question-answering portals
Community QA portals provide an important resource for non-factoid question-answering. The inherent noisiness of user-generated data makes the identification of high-quality cont...
Felix Hieber, Stefan Riezler