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GEOS
2009
Springer
15 years 2 months ago
Narrative Geospatial Knowledge in Ethnographies: Representation and Reasoning
Abstract. Narrative descriptions about populated places are very common in ethnographies. In old articles and books on the migration history of Taiwan aborigines, for example, narr...
Chin-Lung Chang, Yi-Hong Chang, Tyng-Ruey Chuang, ...
SIGMOD
2007
ACM
161views Database» more  SIGMOD 2007»
16 years 4 months ago
Homeviews: peer-to-peer middleware for personal data sharing applications
This paper presents HomeViews, a peer-to-peer middleware system for building personal data management applications. HomeViews provides abstractions and services for data organizat...
Roxana Geambasu, Magdalena Balazinska, Steven D. G...
SIGMOD
2007
ACM
165views Database» more  SIGMOD 2007»
16 years 4 months ago
Statistical analysis of sketch estimators
Sketching techniques can provide approximate answers to aggregate queries either for data-streaming or distributed computation. Small space summaries that have linearity propertie...
Florin Rusu, Alin Dobra
SIGIR
2004
ACM
15 years 10 months ago
On scaling latent semantic indexing for large peer-to-peer systems
The exponential growth of data demands scalable infrastructures capable of indexing and searching rich content such as text, music, and images. A promising direction is to combine...
Chunqiang Tang, Sandhya Dwarkadas, Zhichen Xu
CIKM
2006
Springer
15 years 8 months ago
Evaluation by comparing result sets in context
Familiar evaluation methodologies for information retrieval (IR) are not well suited to the task of comparing systems in many real settings. These systems and evaluation methods m...
Paul Thomas, David Hawking