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CHI
2005
ACM
16 years 3 months ago
Testing the media equation with children
Designers of children's technology are often more interested in user motivation than those who design systems for adults. Since children's technology often has aims such...
Sonia Chiasson, Carl Gutwin
CHI
2005
ACM
16 years 3 months ago
A logic block enabling logic configuration by non-experts in sensor networks
Recent years have seen the evolution of networks of tiny low power computing blocks, known as sensor networks. In one class of sensor networks, a non-expert user, who has little o...
Susan Cotterell, Frank Vahid
SIGMOD
2007
ACM
170views Database» more  SIGMOD 2007»
16 years 3 months ago
Cardinality estimation using sample views with quality assurance
Accurate cardinality estimation is critically important to high-quality query optimization. It is well known that conventional cardinality estimation based on histograms or simila...
Per-Åke Larson, Wolfgang Lehner, Jingren Zho...
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EDBT
2008
ACM
124views Database» more  EDBT 2008»
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Scalable XQuery type matching
XML Schema awareness has been an integral part of the XQuery language since its early design stages. Matching XML data against XML types is the main operation that backs up XQuery...
Jens Teubner
ICSE
2007
IEEE-ACM
16 years 3 months ago
OPIUM: Optimal Package Install/Uninstall Manager
Linux distributions often include package management tools such as apt-get in Debian or yum in RedHat. Using information about package dependencies and conflicts, such tools can d...
Chris Tucker, David Shuffelton, Ranjit Jhala, Sori...