Sciweavers

2211 search results - page 437 / 443
» A scalable distributed information management system
Sort
View
SENSYS
2005
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
Intelligent light control using sensor networks
Increasing user comfort and reducing operation costs have always been two primary objectives of building operations and control strategies. Current building control strategies are...
Vipul Singhvi, Andreas Krause, Carlos Guestrin, Ja...
ADBIS
2004
Springer
224views Database» more  ADBIS 2004»
14 years 27 days ago
Using Ontologies for Database Query Reformulation
Abstract. Query reformulation techniques based on semantic knowledge have been used in two ways in database management systems, namely for query optimization and for data integrati...
Chokri Ben Necib, Johann Christoph Freytag
MM
1993
ACM
107views Multimedia» more  MM 1993»
13 years 11 months ago
What Video Can and Can't Do for Collaboration: A Case Study
As multimedia becomes an integral part of collaborative systems, we must understand how to design such systems to support users’ rich set of existing interaction skills, rather ...
Ellen Isaacs, John C. Tang
CORR
2006
Springer
141views Education» more  CORR 2006»
13 years 7 months ago
Ideas by Statistical Mechanics (ISM)
Ideas by Statistical Mechanics (ISM) is a generic program to model evolution and propagation of ideas/patterns throughout populations subjected to endogenous and exogenous interac...
Lester Ingber
REPLICATION
2010
13 years 5 months ago
A History of the Virtual Synchrony Replication Model
In this chapter, we discuss a widely used fault-tolerant data replication model called virtual synchrony. The model responds to two kinds of needs. First, there is the practical qu...
Ken Birman