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CCGRID
2007
IEEE
15 years 4 months ago
Performance Evaluation in Grid Computing: A Modeling and Prediction Perspective
Experimental performance studies on computer systems, including Grids, require deep understandings on their workload characteristics. The need arises from two important and closel...
Hui Li
CSCW
2002
ACM
14 years 9 months ago
NetWORKers and their Activity in Intensional Networks
Through ethnographic research, we document the rise of personal social networks in the workplace, which we call intensional networks. Paradoxically, we find that the most fundament...
Bonnie A. Nardi, Steve Whittaker, Heinrich Schwarz
GIS
2007
ACM
15 years 11 months ago
A model for enriching trajectories with semantic geographical information
The collection of moving object data is becoming more and more common, and therefore there is an increasing need for the efficient analysis and knowledge extraction of these data ...
Alejandro A. Vaisman, Bart Kuijpers, Bart Moelans,...
EDBT
2010
ACM
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15 years 4 months ago
Optimizing joins in a map-reduce environment
Implementations of map-reduce are being used to perform many operations on very large data. We examine strategies for joining several relations in the map-reduce environment. Our ...
Foto N. Afrati, Jeffrey D. Ullman
AVSS
2006
IEEE
15 years 4 months ago
Nonparametric Background Modeling Using the CONDENSATION Algorithm
Background modeling for dynamic scenes is an important problem in the context of real time video surveillance systems. Several nonparametric background models have been proposed t...
Xingzhi Luo, Suchendra M. Bhandarkar, Wei Hua, Hai...