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DMSN
2005
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
The threshold join algorithm for top-k queries in distributed sensor networks
In this paper we present the Threshold Join Algorithm (TJA), which is an efficient TOP-k query processing algorithm for distributed sensor networks. The objective of a top-k query...
Demetrios Zeinalipour-Yazti, Zografoula Vagena, Di...
SIGIR
2010
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
Context-aware ranking in web search
The context of a search query often provides a search engine meaningful hints for answering the current query better. Previous studies on context-aware search were either focused ...
Biao Xiang, Daxin Jiang, Jian Pei, Xiaohui Sun, En...
ATAL
2003
Springer
14 years 27 days ago
Searching social networks
A referral system is a multiagent system whose member agents are capable of giving and following referrals. The specific cases of interest arise where each agent has a user. The ...
Bin Yu, Munindar P. Singh
ICDAR
2007
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Text-Independent Writer Identification and Verification on Offline Arabic Handwriting
In this paper, we evaluate the performance on Arabic handwriting of the text-independent writer identification methods that we developed and tested on Western script in recent yea...
Marius Bulacu, Lambert Schomaker, Axel Brink
IMC
2003
ACM
14 years 27 days ago
A measurement study of available bandwidth estimation tools
Available bandwidth estimation is useful for route selection in overlay networks, QoS verification, and traffic engineering. Recent years have seen a surge in interest in availab...
Jacob Strauss, Dina Katabi, M. Frans Kaashoek