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WISE
2000
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
Searching the Web Using a Map
Most Internet search engines are keyword-based. They are not efficient for the queries where geographical location is important, such as finding hotels within an area or close to ...
Joseph D. Yates, Xiaofang Zhou
ACMDIS
2000
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
Improving Electronic Guidebook Interfaces Using a Task-Oriented Design Approach
Item selection is a key problem in electronic guidebook design. Many systems do not apply so-called “context-awareness” technologies to infer user interest, placing the entire...
Paul M. Aoki, Allison Woodruff
CHI
2000
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
Helper agent: designing an assistant for human-human interaction in a virtual meeting space
This paper introduces a new application area for agents in the computer interface: the support of human-human interaction. We discuss an interface agent prototype that is designed...
Katherine Isbister, Hideyuki Nakanishi, Toru Ishid...
IPPS
1999
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
Using Run-Time Predictions to Estimate Queue Wait Times and Improve Scheduler Performance
On many computers, a request to run a job is not serviced immediately but instead is placed in a queue and serviced only when resources are released by preceding jobs. In this pape...
Warren Smith, Valerie E. Taylor, Ian T. Foster
ISCA
1999
IEEE
88views Hardware» more  ISCA 1999»
14 years 2 months ago
A Scalable Front-End Architecture for Fast Instruction Delivery
In the pursuit of instruction-level parallelism, significant demands are placed on a processor's instruction delivery mechanism. Delivering the performance necessary to meet ...
Glenn Reinman, Todd M. Austin, Brad Calder