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CHI
2008
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Understanding geocaching practices and motivations
Geocaching is a location-based activity that has been practiced for a number of years. As a sustained and established activity it represents an important opportunity for understan...
Kenton O'Hara
SIGMOD
2008
ACM
92views Database» more  SIGMOD 2008»
14 years 7 months ago
Information extraction challenges in managing unstructured data
Over the past few years, we have been trying to build an end-to-end system at Wisconsin to manage unstructured data, using extraction, integration, and user interaction. This pape...
AnHai Doan, Jeffrey F. Naughton, Raghu Ramakrishna...
SIGMOD
2006
ACM
111views Database» more  SIGMOD 2006»
14 years 7 months ago
On the database/network interface in large-scale publish/subscribe systems
The work performed by a publish/subscribe system can conceptually be divided into subscription processing and notification dissemination. Traditionally, research in the database a...
Badrish Chandramouli, Jun Yang 0001, Junyi Xie
EDBT
2006
ACM
139views Database» more  EDBT 2006»
14 years 7 months ago
An Extensible, Distributed Simulation Environment for Peer Data Management Systems
Abstract. Peer Data Management Systems (PDMS) have recently attracted attention by the database community. One of the main challenges of this paradigm is the development and evalua...
Katja Hose, Andreas Job, Marcel Karnstedt, Kai-Uwe...
PERCOM
2006
ACM
14 years 7 months ago
A Blueprint for Pervasive Self-Care Infrastructures
Self Care is a recent initiative by the Department of Health in the UK that aims to treat patients with longterm conditions sooner, nearer to home and earlier in the course of the...
George Roussos, Andy Marsh