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SIGIR
2012
ACM
12 years 1 months ago
To index or not to index: time-space trade-offs in search engines with positional ranking functions
Positional ranking functions, widely used in web search engines, improve result quality by exploiting the positions of the query terms within documents. However, it is well known ...
Diego Arroyuelo, Senén González, Mau...
EDBT
2012
ACM
291views Database» more  EDBT 2012»
12 years 1 months ago
Relevance search in heterogeneous networks
Conventional research on similarity search focuses on measuring the similarity between objects with the same type. However, in many real-world applications, we need to measure the...
Chuan Shi, Xiangnan Kong, Philip S. Yu, Sihong Xie...
GIS
2004
ACM
14 years 12 months ago
A serverless 3D world
Online multi-participant virtual-world systems have attracted significant interest from the Internet community but are hindered by their inability to efficiently support interacti...
Egemen Tanin, Aaron Harwood, Hanan Samet, Sarana N...
SIGCSE
2009
ACM
213views Education» more  SIGCSE 2009»
14 years 11 months ago
Engaging middle school teachers and students with alice in a diverse set of subjects
This paper describes the integration of the Alice 3D virtual worlds environment into a diverse set of subjects in middle school, including the development of tutorials, example wo...
Susan H. Rodger, Jenna Hayes, Gaetjens Lezin, Henr...
PODC
2009
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
The wireless synchronization problem
In this paper, we study the wireless synchronization problem which requires devices activated at different times on a congested single-hop radio network to synchronize their roun...
Shlomi Dolev, Seth Gilbert, Rachid Guerraoui, Fabi...