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CHI
2004
ACM
14 years 7 months ago
WinCuts: manipulating arbitrary window regions for more effective use of screen space
Each window on our computer desktop provides a view into some information. Although users can currently manipulate multiple windows, we assert that being able to spatially arrange...
Desney S. Tan, Brian Meyers, Mary Czerwinski
SIGMOD
2008
ACM
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14 years 7 months ago
Optimizing complex queries with multiple relation instances
Today's query processing engines do not take advantage of the multiple occurrences of a relation in a query to improve performance. Instead, each instance is treated as a dis...
Yu Cao, Gopal C. Das, Chee Yong Chan, Kian-Lee Tan
MOBISYS
2008
ACM
14 years 7 months ago
Efficient channel-aware rate adaptation in dynamic environments
Increasingly, 802.11 devices are being used by mobile users. This results in very dynamic wireless channels that are difficult to use efficiently. Current rate selection algorithm...
Glenn Judd, Xiaohui Wang, Peter Steenkiste
MOBIHOC
2003
ACM
14 years 7 months ago
Energy-efficient caching strategies in ad hoc wireless networks
In this paper, we address the problem of energy-conscious cache placement in wireless ad hoc networks. We consider a network comprising a server with an interface to the wired net...
Pavan Nuggehalli, Vikram Srinivasan, Carla-Fabiana...
WWW
2010
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
Mind the data skew: distributed inferencing by speeddating in elastic regions
Semantic Web data exhibits very skewed frequency distributions among terms. Efficient large-scale distributed reasoning methods should maintain load-balance in the face of such hi...
Spyros Kotoulas, Eyal Oren, Frank van Harmelen