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CIKM
2006
Springer
14 years 14 days ago
Improving query I/O performance by permuting and refining block request sequences
The I/O performance of query processing can be improved using two complementary approaches. One can try to improve on the buffer and the file system management policies of the DB ...
Xiaoyu Wang, Mitch Cherniack
MA
2000
Springer
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14 years 9 days ago
Quantitative Evaluation of Pairwise Interactions between Agents
Abstract. Systems comprised of multiple interacting mobile agents provide an alternate network computing paradigm that integrates remote data access, message exchange and migration...
Takahiro Kawamura, Sam Joseph, Akihiko Ohsuga, Shi...
SAC
2000
ACM
14 years 9 days ago
Efficient and Flexible Web Access to Art-Historical Image Collections
Modern object-relational database systems are capable of managing multimedia data, e.g. image, video and audio. In this paper we study how such universal database systems can be u...
Matthias Wagner, Stefan Holland, Werner Kieß...
CHI
1995
ACM
14 years 9 days ago
Applying Electric Field Sensing to Human-Computer Interfaces
A non-contact sensor based on the interaction of a person with electric fields for human-computer interface is investigated. Two sensing modes are explored: an external electric f...
Thomas G. Zimmerman, Joshua R. Smith, Joseph A. Pa...
IPAS
2007
13 years 11 months ago
Prediction of signs of DCT coefficients in block-based lossy image compression
A practical impossibility of prediction of signs of DCT coefficients is generally accepted. Therefore each coded sign of DCT coefficients occupies usually 1 bit of memory in compr...
Nikolay N. Ponomarenko, Andriy V. Bazhyna, Karen O...