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WISE
2000
Springer
15 years 4 months ago
Searching the Web Using a Map
Most Internet search engines are keyword-based. They are not efficient for the queries where geographical location is important, such as finding hotels within an area or close to ...
Joseph D. Yates, Xiaofang Zhou
SIGMOD
2000
ACM
161views Database» more  SIGMOD 2000»
15 years 4 months ago
Answering Complex SQL Queries Using Automatic Summary Tables
We investigate the problem of using materialized views to answer SQL queries. We focus on modern decision-support queries, which involve joins, arithmetic operations and other (po...
Markos Zaharioudakis, Roberta Cochrane, George Lap...
AGENTS
2000
Springer
15 years 4 months ago
Experimental assessment of the effectiveness of synthetic personae for multi-modal e-retail applications
This paper details results of an experiment to empirically evaluate the effectiveness and user acceptability of human-like synthetic agents in a multi-modal electronic retail scen...
Helen McBreen, Paul Shade, Mervyn A. Jack, Peter J...
ICDCS
1999
IEEE
15 years 4 months ago
Run-time Detection in Parallel and Distributed Systems: Application to Safety-Critical Systems
There is growing interest in run-time detection as parallel and distributed systems grow larger and more complex. This work targets run-time analysis of complex, interactive scien...
Beth Plale, Karsten Schwan
CC
1999
Springer
116views System Software» more  CC 1999»
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A Programmable ANSI C Transformation Engine
Abstract. Source code transformations are a very effective method of parallelizing and improving the efficiency of programs. Unfortunately most compiler systems require implementin...
Maarten Boekhold, Ireneusz Karkowski, Henk Corpora...