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SIGMOD
2004
ACM
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14 years 9 months ago
When one Sample is not Enough: Improving Text Database Selection Using Shrinkage
Database selection is an important step when searching over large numbers of distributed text databases. The database selection task relies on statistical summaries of the databas...
Panagiotis G. Ipeirotis, Luis Gravano
MOBIQUITOUS
2008
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
ScreenSpot: multidimensional resource discovery for distributed applications in smart spaces
The big challenge related to the contemporary research on ubiquitous and pervasive computing is that of seamless integration. For the next generation of ubiquitous and distributed...
Marko Jurmu, Sebastian Boring, Jukka Riekki
ATAL
2005
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
Task inference and distributed task management in the Centibots robotic system
We describe a very large scale distributed robotic system, involving a team of over 100 robots, that has been successfully deployed in large, unknown indoor environments, over ext...
Charlie Ortiz, Régis Vincent, Benoit Moriss...
VLDB
2007
ACM
166views Database» more  VLDB 2007»
14 years 3 months ago
To Share or Not To Share?
Intuitively, aggressive work sharing among concurrent queries in a database system should always improve performance by eliminating redundant computation or data accesses. We show...
Ryan Johnson, Nikos Hardavellas, Ippokratis Pandis...
DASFAA
1997
IEEE
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14 years 1 months ago
Client-Server Optimization for Multimedia Document Exchange
The success of the World Wide Web is boosting the development of multimedia database systems and their integration into the internet. For the documents stored and exchanged in the...
Gerhard Köstler, Wolfgang L. J. Kowarschick, ...