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CSCW
2002
ACM
13 years 8 months ago
Creating assemblies: : aboard the Ghost Ship
This paper examines the use of an interactive artwork that was designed by members of the research team and exhibited at the Sculpture, Objects and Functional Art (SOFA) Expositio...
Jon Hindmarsh, Christian Heath, Dirk vom Lehn, Jas...
EJC
2010
13 years 7 months ago
Exact solution of two classes of prudent polygons
Prudent walks are self-avoiding walks on a lattice which never step into the direction of an already occupied vertex. We study the closed version of these walks, called prudent po...
Uwe Schwerdtfeger
CIKM
2011
Springer
12 years 9 months ago
Adaptive term frequency normalization for BM25
A key component of BM25 contributing to its success is its sub-linear term frequency (TF) normalization formula. The scale and shape of this TF normalization component is controll...
Yuanhua Lv, ChengXiang Zhai
CAISE
2010
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
From Web Data to Entities and Back
We present the Entity Name System (ENS), an enabling infrastructure, which can host descriptions of named entities and provide unique identifiers, on large-scale. In this way, it o...
Zoltán Miklós, Nicolas Bonvin, Paolo...
DEBS
2003
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
Information sharing with the Oracle database
Database systems have been designed to manage business critical information and make this information accessible on request to connected clients. There is, however, an ever-increa...
Dieter Gawlick, Shailendra Mishra