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SIGMOD
1996
ACM
109views Database» more  SIGMOD 1996»
13 years 11 months ago
Improved Histograms for Selectivity Estimation of Range Predicates
Many commercial database systems maintain histograms to summarize the contents of relations and permit efficient estimation of query result sizes and access plan costs. Although s...
Viswanath Poosala, Yannis E. Ioannidis, Peter J. H...
CSCW
2011
ACM
13 years 2 months ago
Creating a context of trust with ICTs: restoring a sense of normalcy in the environment
This paper reports on an ethnographic study of the technology-enabled behavior that took place amongst a citizen population living in a conflict zone. We interviewed 65 Iraqi citi...
Bryan Semaan, Gloria Mark
CHI
2005
ACM
14 years 7 months ago
No task left behind?: examining the nature of fragmented work
We present data from detailed observation of 24 information workers that shows that they experience work fragmentation as common practice. We consider that work fragmentation has ...
Gloria Mark, Justin Harris, Víctor M. Gonz&...
HICSS
2008
IEEE
111views Biometrics» more  HICSS 2008»
14 years 1 months ago
Cooperation and Coordination in Decentralized Communication Networks
Research has shown that decentralized networks and organizations perform better and have more satisfied members than centralized ones. Further, decentralized self-organizing netwo...
Devan Rosen
SDM
2007
SIAM
126views Data Mining» more  SDM 2007»
13 years 9 months ago
Scalable Name Disambiguation using Multi-level Graph Partition
When non-unique values are used as the identifier of entities, due to their homonym, confusion can occur. In particular, when (part of) “names” of entities are used as their ...
Byung-Won On, Dongwon Lee