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GIS
2009
ACM
16 years 4 months ago
A Case Study of Using Geographic Cues to Predict Query News Intent
Geographic information retrieval encompasses important tasks including finding the location of a user, and locations relevant to their search queries. Web-based search engines rec...
Ahmed Hassan, Rosie Jones, Fernando Diaz
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CIDR
2009
181views Algorithms» more  CIDR 2009»
15 years 4 months ago
The Case for RodentStore: An Adaptive, Declarative Storage System
Recent excitement in the database community surrounding new applications--analytic, scientific, graph, geospatial, etc.--has led to an explosion in research on database storage sy...
Philippe Cudré-Mauroux, Eugene Wu, Samuel M...
SIGCOMM
2010
ACM
15 years 3 months ago
The case for active device drivers
We revisit the device-driver architecture supported by the majority of operating systems, where a driver is a passive object that does not have its own thread of control and is on...
Leonid Ryzhyk, Yanjin Zhu, Gernot Heiser
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BMCBI
2008
150views more  BMCBI 2008»
15 years 3 months ago
BibGlimpse: The case for a light-weight reprint manager in distributed literature research
Background: While text-mining and distributed annotation systems both aim at capturing knowledge and presenting it in a standardized form, there have been few attempts to investig...
Thomas Tüchler, Golda Velez, Alexandra Graf, ...
ICCS
2009
Springer
15 years 10 months ago
Experience with Approximations in the Trust-Region Parallel Direct Search Algorithm
Recent years have seen growth in the number of algorithms designed to solve challenging simulation-based nonlinear optimization problems. One such algorithm is the Trust-Region Par...
S. M. Shontz, V. E. Howle, P. D. Hough