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PODS
2005
ACM
151views Database» more  PODS 2005»
14 years 8 months ago
Estimating arbitrary subset sums with few probes
Suppose we have a large table T of items i, each with a weight wi, e.g., people and their salary. In a general preprocessing step for estimating arbitrary subset sums, we assign e...
Noga Alon, Nick G. Duffield, Carsten Lund, Mikkel ...
ICS
2007
Tsinghua U.
14 years 2 months ago
Automatic nonblocking communication for partitioned global address space programs
Overlapping communication with computation is an important optimization on current cluster architectures; its importance is likely to increase as the doubling of processing power ...
Wei-Yu Chen, Dan Bonachea, Costin Iancu, Katherine...
GIS
2010
ACM
13 years 5 months ago
Querying geo-social data by bridging spatial networks and social networks
Recording the location of people using location-acquisition technologies, such as GPS, allows generating life patterns, which associate people to places they frequently visit. Con...
Yerach Doytsher, Ben Galon, Yaron Kanza
SOSP
2005
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
Hibernator: helping disk arrays sleep through the winter
Energy consumption has become an important issue in high-end data centers, and disk arrays are one of the largest energy consumers within them. Although several attempts have been...
Qingbo Zhu, Zhifeng Chen, Lin Tan, Yuanyuan Zhou, ...
MM
2006
ACM
143views Multimedia» more  MM 2006»
14 years 1 months ago
Motion swarms: video interaction for art in complex environments
We create interactive art that can be enjoyed by groups such as audiences at public events with the intent to encourage communication with those around us as we play with the art....
Quoc Nguyen, Scott Novakowski, Jeffrey E. Boyd, Ch...