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COOPIS
2002
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
On Real-Time Top k Querying for Mobile Services
Mobile services offering multi-feature query capabilities must meet tough response time requirements to gain customer acceptance. The top-k query model is a popular candidate to im...
Wolf-Tilo Balke, Ulrich Güntzer, Werner Kie&s...
UDM
2005
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
Context for Ubiquitous Data Management
In response to the advance of ubiquitous computing technologies, we believe that for computer systems to be ubiquitous, they must be context-aware. In this paper, we address the i...
Arthur H. van Bunningen, Ling Feng, Peter M. G. Ap...
SIGIR
2011
ACM
13 years 17 days ago
Cluster-based fusion of retrieved lists
Methods for fusing document lists that were retrieved in response to a query often use retrieval scores (or ranks) of documents in the lists. We present a novel probabilistic fusi...
Anna Khudyak Kozorovitzky, Oren Kurland
ETFA
2005
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
Environmental control system based on mobile devices
AbstractThe impact of the use of mobile devices by means of GPRS (General Packet Radio Service) technology to access environmental information in real time, provided by sensors str...
T. Albero, V. Sempere, J. Silvestre, P. Dabbas
WWW
2010
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
Efficient resource allocation and power saving in multi-tiered systems
In this paper, we present Fastrack, a parameter-free algorithm for dynamic resource provisioning that uses simple statistics to promptly distill information about changes in workl...
Andrew Caniff, Lei Lu, Ningfang Mi, Ludmila Cherka...