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CHI
2007
ACM
14 years 9 months ago
Coordinating joint activity in avatar-mediated interaction
Massively multiplayer online games (MMOGs) currently represent the most widely used type of social 3D virtual worlds with millions of users worldwide. Although MMOGs take face-to-...
Robert J. Moore, E. Cabell Hankinson Gathman, Nico...
CHI
2005
ACM
14 years 9 months ago
Sharing the big apple: a survey study of people, place and locatability
With the advancement in technologies to locate individuals, there has been an emergence of information systems that link People-to-People-to-Geographical-Places, labeled P3Systems...
Sukeshini A. Grandhi, Quentin Jones, Samer Karam
SIGMOD
2002
ACM
84views Database» more  SIGMOD 2002»
14 years 8 months ago
Skew handling techniques in sort-merge join
Joins are among the most frequently executed operations. Several fast join algorithms have been developed and extensively studied; these can be categorized as sort-merge, hash-bas...
Wei Li, Dengfeng Gao, Richard T. Snodgrass
ICDE
2010
IEEE
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14 years 8 months ago
Cost-efficient and Differentiated Data Availability Guarantees in Data Clouds
Abstract-- Failures of any type are common in current datacenters. As data scales up, its availability becomes more complex, while different availability levels per application or ...
Nicolas Bonvin, Thanasis G. Papaioannou, Karl Aber...
EUROGRAPHICS
2010
Eurographics
14 years 5 months ago
Rendering Wave Effects with Augmented Light Field
Ray–based representations can model complex light transport but are limited in modeling diffraction effects that require the simulation of wavefront propagation. This paper prov...
Se Baek Oh, Sriram Kashyap, Rohit Garg, Sharat Cha...