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SIGUCCS
2006
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
Better results in mathematics lessons with a virtual personal teacher
In this paper we present the results of an experiment made with our e-librarian service ”MatES”, an e-Learning tool on fractions in mathematics. MatES allows students to enter...
Serge Linckels, Carole Dording, Christoph Meinel
WWW
2007
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Optimizing web search using social annotations
This paper explores the use of social annotations to improve web search. Nowadays, many services, e.g. del.icio.us, have been developed for web users to organize and share their f...
Shenghua Bao, Gui-Rong Xue, Xiaoyuan Wu, Yong Yu, ...
EDBT
2010
ACM
206views Database» more  EDBT 2010»
14 years 2 months ago
Efficient computation of trade-off skylines
When selecting alternatives from large amounts of data, trade-offs play a vital role in everyday decision making. In databases this is primarily reflected by the top-k retrieval p...
Christoph Lofi, Ulrich Güntzer, Wolf-Tilo Bal...
ATAL
2003
Springer
14 years 29 days ago
Generalizing preference elicitation in combinatorial auctions
Combinatorial auctions where agents can bid on bundles of items are desirable because they allow the agents to express complementarity and substitutability between the items. Howe...
Benoît Hudson, Tuomas Sandholm
VLDB
1999
ACM
145views Database» more  VLDB 1999»
13 years 12 months ago
DBMSs on a Modern Processor: Where Does Time Go?
Recent high-performance processors employ sophisticated techniques to overlap and simultaneously execute multiple computation and memory operations. Intuitively, these techniques ...
Anastassia Ailamaki, David J. DeWitt, Mark D. Hill...