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KRDB
1998
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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 9 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
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WWW
2008
ACM
16 years 4 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 9 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
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GIS
2006
ACM
16 years 4 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...