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GIS
2002
ACM
13 years 6 months ago
Opening the black box: interactive hierarchical clustering for multivariate spatial patterns
Clustering is one of the most important tasks for geographic knowledge discovery. However, existing clustering methods have two severe drawbacks for this purpose. First, spatial c...
Diansheng Guo, Donna Peuquet, Mark Gahegan
DKE
1998
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Temporal Grid File: A File Structure for Interval Data
Disk I/O is a major bottleneck for query processing in database applications. This bottleneck is especially a problem for temporal databases because of their large size. Reduction...
Chiang Lee, Te-Ming Tseng
SOFTWARE
1998
13 years 6 months ago
Interrupts: Just a Minute Never Is
development is a highly abstract process that requires intense concentration. The authors show that interrupting this process can significantly reduce a developer’s efficiency an...
Rini van Solingen, Egon Berghout, Frank van Latum
SIAMCOMP
2002
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On Binary Searching with Nonuniform Costs
Let us consider an ordered vector A[1 : n]. If the cost of testing each position is similar, then the standard binary search is the best strategy to search the vector. This is true...
Eduardo Sany Laber, Ruy Luiz Milidiú, Artur...
TASLP
2002
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A new audio coding scheme using a forward masking model and perceptually weighted vector quantization
This paper presents a new audio coder that includes two techniques to improve the sound quality of the audio coding system. First, a forward masking model is proposed. This model e...
Yuan-Hao Huang, Tzi-Dar Chiueh