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CHI
2003
ACM
15 years 11 months ago
A fisheye calendar interface for PDAs: providing overviews for small displays
Calendar applications for small handheld devices such as PDAs are growing in popularity. This led us to develop FishCal, a novel calendar interface for PDAs. It supports users in ...
Benjamin B. Bederson, Aaron Clamage, Mary Czerwins...
SIGMOD
2005
ACM
141views Database» more  SIGMOD 2005»
15 years 11 months ago
Integrating databases and workflow systems
There has been an information explosion in fields of science such as high energy physics, astronomy, environmental sciences and biology. There is a critical need for automated sys...
Srinath Shankar, Ameet Kini, David J. DeWitt, Jeff...
SIGMOD
2004
ACM
161views Database» more  SIGMOD 2004»
15 years 11 months ago
Approximation Techniques for Spatial Data
Spatial Database Management Systems (SDBMS), e.g., Geographical Information Systems, that manage spatial objects such as points, lines, and hyper-rectangles, often have very high ...
Abhinandan Das, Johannes Gehrke, Mirek Riedewald
SIGMOD
2003
ACM
140views Database» more  SIGMOD 2003»
15 years 11 months ago
A Comprehensive XQuery to SQL Translation using Dynamic Interval Encoding
The W3C XQuery language recommendation, based on a hierarchical and ordered document model, supports a wide variety of constructs and use cases. There is a diversity of approaches...
David DeHaan, David Toman, Mariano P. Consens, M. ...
EDBT
2006
ACM
121views Database» more  EDBT 2006»
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A Decomposition-Based Probabilistic Framework for Estimating the Selectivity of XML Twig Queries
In this paper we present a novel approach for estimating the selectivity of XML twig queries. Such a technique is useful for approximate query answering as well as for determining...
Chao Wang, Srinivasan Parthasarathy, Ruoming Jin