Interface design for the home requires a realistic understanding of the complexity and richness of the human activities that go on there; it is our goal to develop tools that enab...
Jennifer Beaudin, Stephen S. Intille, Emmanuel Mun...
This work addresses the problem of diagnosing configuration errors that cause a system to function incorrectly. For example, a change to the local firewall policy could cause a ne...
Andrew Whitaker, Richard S. Cox, Steven D. Gribble
This experience paper summarizes the key lessons we learned throughout the design and implementation of the Aurora stream processing engine. For the past two years, we have built f...
Hari Balakrishnan, Magdalena Balazinska, Donald Ca...
Spatial and temporal database systems, both in theory and in practice, have developed dramatically over the past two decades to the point where usable commercial systems, underpin...
John F. Roddick, Max J. Egenhofer, Erik G. Hoel, D...
Cardinality estimation during query optimization relies on simplifying assumptions that usually do not hold in practice. To diminish the impact of inaccurate estimates during opti...