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SIGMOD
2010
ACM
145views Database» more  SIGMOD 2010»
15 years 3 months ago
How to ConQueR why-not questions
One useful feature that is missing from today’s database systems is an explain capability that enables users to seek clarifications on unexpected query results. There are two t...
Quoc Trung Tran, Chee-Yong Chan
TVCG
2012
205views Hardware» more  TVCG 2012»
13 years 7 months ago
A Deformable Surface Model for Real-Time Water Drop Animation
—A water drop behaves differently from a large water body because of its strong viscosity and surface tension under the small scale. Surface tension causes the motion of a water ...
Yizhong Zhang, Huamin Wang, Shuai Wang, Yiying Ton...
MANSCI
2008
116views more  MANSCI 2008»
15 years 4 months ago
Call Center Outsourcing: Coordinating Staffing Level and Service Quality
In this paper, we study the contracting issues in an outsourcing supply chain consisting of a user company and a call center that does outsourcing work for the user company. We mo...
Z. Justin Ren, Yong-Pin Zhou
MOBISYS
2008
ACM
16 years 4 months ago
Detecting energy-greedy anomalies and mobile malware variants
Mobile users of computation and communication services have been rapidly adopting battery-powered mobile handhelds, such as PocketPCs and SmartPhones, for their work. However, the...
Hahnsang Kim, Joshua Smith, Kang G. Shin
ECOOP
1998
Springer
15 years 9 months ago
Mobile Objects and Mobile Agents: The Future of Distributed Computing?
This paper will lead you into the world of mobile agents, an emerging technology that makes it very much easier to design, implement, and maintain distributed systems. You will fin...
Danny B. Lange