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COOPIS
1999
IEEE
15 years 2 months ago
Using Fagin's Algorithm for Merging Ranked Results in Multimedia Middleware
A distributed multimedia information system allows users to access data of different modalities, from different data sources, ranked by various combinationsof criteria. In [6], Fa...
Edward L. Wimmers, Laura M. Haas, Mary Tork Roth, ...
AINA
2010
IEEE
15 years 2 months ago
Context-Aware Mobile Services Transactions
— with the ubiquity of handheld devices people can now access information and conduct online transactions virtually anywhere and anytime. In such flexible but less reliable envir...
Muhammad Younas, Soraya Kouadri Mostéfaoui
SIGMOD
2010
ACM
207views Database» more  SIGMOD 2010»
15 years 2 months ago
Automatic contention detection and amelioration for data-intensive operations
To take full advantage of the parallelism offered by a multicore machine, one must write parallel code. Writing parallel code is difficult. Even when one writes correct code, the...
John Cieslewicz, Kenneth A. Ross, Kyoho Satsumi, Y...
TELETRAFFIC
2007
Springer
15 years 3 months ago
Is ALOHA Causing Power Law Delays?
Abstract. Renewed interest in ALOHA-based Medium Access Control (MAC) protocols stems from their proposed applications to wireless ad hoc and sensor networks that require distribut...
Predrag R. Jelenkovic, Jian Tan
AINA
2007
IEEE
15 years 4 months ago
Heuristics for Improving Cryptographic Key Assignment in a Hierarchy
In hierarchical distributed systems, shared data access can be controlled by assigning user groups single cryptographic keys that allow high level users derive low level keys, but...
Anne V. D. M. Kayem, Patrick Martin, Selim G. Akl