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ECCV
2008
Springer
14 years 9 months ago
FaceTracer: A Search Engine for Large Collections of Images with Faces
We have created the first image search engine based entirely on faces. Using simple text queries such as "smiling men with blond hair and mustaches," users can search thr...
Neeraj Kumar, Peter N. Belhumeur, Shree K. Nayar
CCGRID
2008
IEEE
13 years 9 months ago
A Probabilistic Model to Analyse Workflow Performance on Production Grids
Production grids are complex and highly variable systems whose behavior is not well understood and difficult to anticipate. The goal of this study is to estimate the impact of the ...
Tristan Glatard, Johan Montagnat, Xavier Pennec
MHCI
2004
Springer
14 years 23 days ago
Web Page Transformation When Switching Devices
With network and small screen device improvements, such as wireless abilities, increased memory and CPU speeds, users are no longer limited by location when accessing on-line infor...
Bonnie MacKay, Carolyn R. Watters, Jack Duffy
SIGCOMM
2009
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
Virtual individual servers as privacy-preserving proxies for mobile devices
People increasingly generate content on their mobile devices and upload it to third-party services such as Facebook and Google Latitude for sharing and backup purposes. Although t...
Ramón Cáceres, Landon P. Cox, Harold...
SIGMOD
2008
ACM
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14 years 7 months ago
OLTP through the looking glass, and what we found there
Online Transaction Processing (OLTP) databases include a suite of features -- disk-resident B-trees and heap files, locking-based concurrency control, support for multi-threading ...
Stavros Harizopoulos, Daniel J. Abadi, Samuel Madd...