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CHI
2003
ACM
14 years 10 months ago
Media inequality in conversation: how people behave differently when interacting with computers and people
How is interacting with computer programs different from interacting with people? One answer in the literature is that these two types of interactions are similar. The present stu...
Nicole Shechtman, Leonard M. Horowitz
VLDB
2004
ACM
96views Database» more  VLDB 2004»
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Multidimensional data modeling for location-based services
With the recent and continuing advances in areas such as wireless communications and positioning technologies, mobile, locationbased services are becoming possible. Such services ...
Christian S. Jensen, Augustas Kligys, Torben Bach ...
VLDB
2007
ACM
101views Database» more  VLDB 2007»
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SQLB: A Query Allocation Framework for Autonomous Consumers and Providers
In large-scale distributed information systems, where participants are autonomous and have special interests for some queries, query allocation is a challenge. Much work in this c...
Jorge-Arnulfo Quiané-Ruiz, Patrick Valdurie...
SIGMOD
2008
ACM
126views Database» more  SIGMOD 2008»
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On efficient top-k query processing in highly distributed environments
Lately the advances in centralized database management systems show a trend towards supporting rank-aware query operators, like top-k, that enable users to retrieve only the most ...
Akrivi Vlachou, Christos Doulkeridis, Kjetil N&osl...
SIGMOD
2005
ACM
100views Database» more  SIGMOD 2005»
14 years 10 months ago
Events on the edge
The emergence of large-scale receptor-based systems has enabled applications to execute complex business logic over data generated from monitoring the physical world. An important...
Shariq Rizvi, Shawn R. Jeffery, Sailesh Krishnamur...