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2010
IEEE
108views Virtual Reality» more  VR 2010»
14 years 8 months ago
Twinkle: Interacting with physical surfaces using handheld projector
We propose a novel interface called Twinkle for interacting with an arbitrary physical surface using a handheld projector and a camera. When a user flashes a projection light on ...
Takumi Yoshida, Yuki Hirobe, Hideaki Nii, Naoki Ka...
SIGMOD
2004
ACM
150views Database» more  SIGMOD 2004»
15 years 9 months ago
Integrating Vertical and Horizontal Partitioning Into Automated Physical Database Design
In addition to indexes and materialized views, horizontal and vertical partitioning are important aspects of physical design in a relational database system that significantly imp...
Sanjay Agrawal, Vivek R. Narasayya, Beverly Yang
EDBT
2006
ACM
124views Database» more  EDBT 2006»
15 years 9 months ago
Physical Design Refinement: The "Merge-Reduce" Approach
Abstract. Physical database design tools rely on a DBA-provided workload to pick an "optimal" set of indexes and materialized views. Such an approach fails to capture sce...
Nicolas Bruno, Surajit Chaudhuri
TEI
2010
ACM
268views Hardware» more  TEI 2010»
15 years 4 months ago
DisplayObjects: prototyping functional physical interfaces on 3d styrofoam, paper or cardboard models
This paper introduces DisplayObjects, a rapid prototyping workbench that allows functional interfaces to be projected onto real 3D physical prototypes. DisplayObjects uses a Vicon...
Eric Akaoka, Tim Ginn, Roel Vertegaal
ICDE
2008
IEEE
148views Database» more  ICDE 2008»
15 years 4 months ago
Automated physical design in database caches
Abstract— Performance of proxy caches for database federations that serve a large number of users is crucially dependent on its physical design. Current techniques, automated or ...
Tanu Malik, Xiaodan Wang, Randal C. Burns, Debabra...