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2004
Springer
14 years 25 days ago
A Physics-Style Approach to Scalability of Distributed systems
Abstract. Is it possible to treat large scale distributed systems as physical systems? The importance of that question stems from the fact that the behavior of many P2P systems is ...
Erik Aurell, Sameh El-Ansary
CORR
2007
Springer
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13 years 7 months ago
Physical limits of inference
We show that physical devices that perform observation, prediction, or recollection share an underlying mathematical structure. We call devices with that structure “inference de...
David H. Wolpert
EDBT
2002
ACM
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14 years 7 months ago
A Framework for the Physical Design Problem for Data Synopses
Maintaining statistics on multidimensional data distributions is crucial for predicting the run-time and result size of queries and data analysis tasks with acceptable accuracy. To...
Arnd Christian König, Gerhard Weikum
CHI
2006
ACM
14 years 7 months ago
Getting a grip on tangible interaction: a framework on physical space and social interaction
Our current understanding of human interaction with hybrid or augmented environments is very limited. Here we focus on `tangible interaction', denoting systems that rely on e...
Eva Hornecker, Jacob Buur