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VLDB
2005
ACM
109views Database» more  VLDB 2005»
14 years 8 months ago
Model-based approximate querying in sensor networks
Abstract Declarative queries are proving to be an attractive paradigm for interacting with networks of wireless sensors. The metaphor that "the sensornet is a database" i...
Amol Deshpande, Carlos Guestrin, Samuel Madden, Jo...
EUROSYS
2007
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
Exploiting nonstationarity for performance prediction
Real production applications ranging from enterprise applications to large e-commerce sites share a crucial but seldom-noted characteristic: The relative frequencies of transactio...
Christopher Stewart, Terence Kelly, Alex Zhang
ISM
2008
IEEE
110views Multimedia» more  ISM 2008»
14 years 2 months ago
A Hardware-Independent Fast Logarithm Approximation with Adjustable Accuracy
Many multimedia applications rely on the computation of logarithms, for example, when estimating log-likelihoods for Gaussian Mixture Models. Knowing of the demand to compute loga...
Oriol Vinyals, Gerald Friedland
MOBIWAC
2006
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
Calibration-free WLAN location system based on dynamic mapping of signal strength
In this work we present a calibration-free system for locating wireless local area network devices, based on the radio frequency characteristics of such networks. Calibration proc...
Luís Felipe M. de Moraes, Bruno Astuto A. N...
IPPS
1999
IEEE
14 years 16 hour ago
The Impact of Memory Hierarchies on Cluster Computing
Using off-the-shelf commodity workstations and PCs to build a cluster for parallel computing has become a common practice. A choice of a cost-effective cluster computing platform ...
Xing Du, Xiaodong Zhang