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CHI
2004
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Examining the robustness of sensor-based statistical models of human interruptibility
Current systems often create socially awkward interruptions or unduly demand attention because they have no way of knowing if a person is busy and should not be interrupted. Previ...
James Fogarty, Scott E. Hudson, Jennifer Lai
SIGMOD
2007
ACM
179views Database» more  SIGMOD 2007»
14 years 7 months ago
How to barter bits for chronons: compression and bandwidth trade offs for database scans
Two trends are converging to make the CPU cost of a table scan a more important component of database performance. First, table scans are becoming a larger fraction of the query p...
Allison L. Holloway, Vijayshankar Raman, Garret Sw...
IWMM
2009
Springer
152views Hardware» more  IWMM 2009»
14 years 2 months ago
A new approach to parallelising tracing algorithms
Tracing algorithms visit reachable nodes in a graph and are central to activities such as garbage collection, marshalling etc. Traditional sequential algorithms use a worklist, re...
Cosmin E. Oancea, Alan Mycroft, Stephen M. Watt
JCDL
2004
ACM
170views Education» more  JCDL 2004»
14 years 1 months ago
Looking for new, not known music only: music retrieval by melody style
With the growth of digital music, content-based music retrieval (CBMR) has attracted increasingly attention. For most CBMR systems, the task is to return music objects similar to ...
Fang-Fei Kuo, Man-Kwan Shan
COMGEO
2010
ACM
14 years 15 days ago
GIS in the cloud: implementing a web map service on Google App Engine
Many producers of geographic information are now disseminating their data using open web service protocols, notably those published by the Open Geospatial Consortium. There are ma...
J. D. Blower