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ASSETS
2006
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
From letters to words: efficient stroke-based word completion for trackball text entry
We present a major extension to our previous work on Trackball EdgeWrite—a unistroke text entry method for trackballs—by taking it from a character-level technique to a word-l...
Jacob O. Wobbrock, Brad A. Myers
GIS
2003
ACM
14 years 11 months ago
Attribute space visualization of demographic change
This paper introduces an approach for closer integration of selforganizing maps into the visualization of spatio-temporal phenomena in GIS. It is proposed to provide a more explic...
André Skupin, Ron Hagelman
ICSE
2008
IEEE-ACM
14 years 10 months ago
Systematically refactoring inheritance to delegation in java
Because of the strong coupling of classes and the proliferation of unneeded class members induced by inheritance, the suggestion to use composition and delegation instead has beco...
Hannes Kegel, Friedrich Steimann
STOC
2005
ACM
174views Algorithms» more  STOC 2005»
14 years 10 months ago
On the average case performance of some greedy approximation algorithms for the uncapacitated facility location problem
In combinatorial optimization, a popular approach to NP-hard problems is the design of approximation algorithms. These algorithms typically run in polynomial time and are guarante...
Abraham Flaxman, Alan M. Frieze, Juan Carlos Vera
PODS
2006
ACM
114views Database» more  PODS 2006»
14 years 10 months ago
On redundancy vs dependency preservation in normalization: an information-theoretic study of 3NF
A recently introduced information-theoretic approach to analyzing redundancies in database design was used to justify normal forms like BCNF that completely eliminate redundancies...
Solmaz Kolahi, Leonid Libkin