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SIGMOD
2008
ACM
203views Database» more  SIGMOD 2008»
14 years 8 months ago
Querying continuous functions in a database system
Many scientific, financial, data mining and sensor network applications need to work with continuous, rather than discrete data e.g., temperature as a function of location, or sto...
Arvind Thiagarajan, Samuel Madden
DEBS
2010
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
Workload characterization for operator-based distributed stream processing applications
Operator-based programming languages provide an effective development model for large scale stream processing applications. A stream processing application consists of many runtim...
Xiaolan J. Zhang, Sujay Parekh, Bugra Gedik, Henri...
MOBISYS
2010
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
Darwin phones: the evolution of sensing and inference on mobile phones
We present Darwin, an enabling technology for mobile phone sensing that combines collaborative sensing and classification techniques to reason about human behavior and context on ...
Emiliano Miluzzo, Cory Cornelius, Ashwin Ramaswamy...
MOBISYS
2003
ACM
14 years 7 months ago
Energy Aware Lossless Data Compression
Wireless transmission of a bit can require over 1000 times more energy than a single 32-bit computation. It would therefore seem desirable to perform significant computation to re...
Kenneth C. Barr, Krste Asanovic
SIGMOD
1996
ACM
132views Database» more  SIGMOD 1996»
13 years 12 months ago
Cost-Based Optimization for Magic: Algebra and Implementation
Magic sets rewriting is a well-known optimization heuristic for complex decision-support queries. There can be many variants of this rewriting even for a single query, which diffe...
Praveen Seshadri, Joseph M. Hellerstein, Hamid Pir...