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KRDB
1998
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14 years 11 months ago
Intelligent Caching for Information Mediators: A KR Based Approach
We present a semantic caching approach for optimizing the performance of information mediators. A critical problem with information mediators, particularly those gathering and int...
Naveen Ashish, Craig A. Knoblock, Cyrus Shahabi
SIGCOMM
2006
ACM
15 years 3 months ago
Minimizing churn in distributed systems
A pervasive requirement of distributed systems is to deal with churn — change in the set of participating nodes due to joins, graceful leaves, and failures. A high churn rate ca...
Brighten Godfrey, Scott Shenker, Ion Stoica
WWW
2008
ACM
15 years 10 months ago
Supporting anonymous location queries in mobile environments with privacygrid
This paper presents PrivacyGrid - a framework for supporting anonymous location-based queries in mobile information delivery systems. The PrivacyGrid framework offers three unique...
Bhuvan Bamba, Ling Liu, Péter Pesti, Ting W...
SENSYS
2004
ACM
15 years 3 months ago
Versatile low power media access for wireless sensor networks
We propose B-MAC, a carrier sense media access protocol for wireless sensor networks that provides a flexible interface to obtain ultra low power operation, effective collision a...
Joseph Polastre, Jason L. Hill, David E. Culler
GIS
2006
ACM
15 years 10 months ago
Exploiting a page-level upper bound for multi-type nearest neighbor queries
Given a query point and a collection of spatial features, a multi-type nearest neighbor (MTNN) query finds the shortest tour for the query point such that only one instance of eac...
Xiaobin Ma, Shashi Shekhar, Hui Xiong, Pusheng Zha...