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CHI
2011
ACM
12 years 11 months ago
PhotoCity: training experts at large-scale image acquisition through a competitive game
Large-scale, ground-level urban imagery has recently developed as an important element of online mapping tools such as Google’s Street View. Such imagery is extremely valuable i...
Kathleen Tuite, Noah Snavely, Dun-yu Hsiao, Nadine...
EDBT
2011
ACM
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12 years 11 months ago
Predicting completion times of batch query workloads using interaction-aware models and simulation
A question that database administrators (DBAs) routinely need to answer is how long a batch query workload will take to complete. This question arises, for example, while planning...
Mumtaz Ahmad, Songyun Duan, Ashraf Aboulnaga, Shiv...
IPSN
2011
Springer
12 years 11 months ago
Duty-cycling buildings aggressively: The next frontier in HVAC control
Buildings are known to be the largest consumers of electricity in the United States, and often times the dominant energy consumer is the HVAC system. Despite this fact, in most bu...
Yuvraj Agarwal, Bharathan Balaji, Seemanta Dutta, ...
MOBISYS
2011
ACM
12 years 10 months ago
TagSense: a smartphone-based approach to automatic image tagging
Mobile phones are becoming the convergent platform for personal sensing, computing, and communication. This paper attempts to exploit this convergence towards the problem of autom...
Chuan Qin, Xuan Bao, Romit Roy Choudhury, Srihari ...
GIS
2010
ACM
13 years 5 months ago
Towards location-based social networking services
Social networking applications have become very important web services that provide Internet-based platforms for their users to interact with their friends. With the advances in t...
Chi-Yin Chow, Jie Bao 0003, Mohamed F. Mokbel