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SIGMOD
2008
ACM
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14 years 10 months ago
On efficient top-k query processing in highly distributed environments
Lately the advances in centralized database management systems show a trend towards supporting rank-aware query operators, like top-k, that enable users to retrieve only the most ...
Akrivi Vlachou, Christos Doulkeridis, Kjetil N&osl...
PERCOM
2005
ACM
14 years 9 months ago
PICASSO: Pervasive Information Chronicling, Access, Search, and Sharing for Organizations
Several researchers have pointed out and begun to demonstrate that it is now possible to digitize an entire lifetime of experiences into a pocket-sized storage device, and thus to...
Gopal Pingali, Mark Podlaseck, Sinem Güven
PERCOM
2005
ACM
14 years 9 months ago
Adaptive Temporal Radio Maps for Indoor Location Estimation
In this paper, we present a novel method to adapt the temporal radio maps for indoor location determination by offsetting the variational environmental factors using data mining t...
Jie Yin, Qiang Yang, Lionel M. Ni
MOBISYS
2005
ACM
14 years 9 months ago
Reincarnating PCs with portable SoulPads
The ability to walk up to any computer, personalize it, and use it as one's own has long been a goal of mobile computing research. We present SoulPad, a new approach based on...
Ramón Cáceres, Casey Carter, Chandra...
PERCOM
2009
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Distributed Policy Resolution Through Negotiation in Ubiquitous Computing Environments
—Ensuring spontaneous ad hoc interoperation in decentralized ubiquitous computing environments is challenging, because of heterogeneous resources and divergent policies. Centrali...
Venkatraman Ramakrishna, Peter L. Reiher, Leonard ...