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SIGMOD
2012
ACM
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13 years 18 days ago
Oracle in-database hadoop: when mapreduce meets RDBMS
Big data is the tar sands of the data world: vast reserves of raw gritty data whose valuable information content can only be extracted at great cost. MapReduce is a popular parall...
Xueyuan Su, Garret Swart
IPPS
2006
IEEE
15 years 4 months ago
Using virtual grids to simplify application scheduling
Users and developers of grid applications have access to increasing numbers of resources. While more resources generally mean higher capabilities for an application, they also rai...
Richard Y. Huang, Henri Casanova, Andrew A. Chien
ENVSOFT
2006
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14 years 10 months ago
Ten iterative steps in development and evaluation of environmental models
Models are increasingly being relied upon to inform and support natural resource management. They are incorporating an ever broader range of disciplines and now often confront peo...
Anthony J. Jakeman, Rebecca A. Letcher, John P. No...
ICDE
2009
IEEE
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15 years 12 months ago
A Concise Representation of Range Queries
Abstract--With the advance of wireless communication technology, it is quite common for people to view maps or get related services from the handheld devices, such as mobile phones...
Ke Yi, Xiang Lian, Feifei Li, Lei Chen 0002
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ENGL
2007
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14 years 10 months ago
Wearable Real-Time Stereo Vision for the Visually Impaired
— Visually impaired find their navigation difficult as they often lack the needed information for bypassing obstacles and hazards. Electronic Travel Aids (ETAs) are devices that ...
G. Balakrishnan, G. Sainarayanan, R. Nagarajan, Sa...