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ATMOS
2008
139views Optimization» more  ATMOS 2008»
13 years 11 months ago
Efficient On-Trip Timetable Information in the Presence of Delays
Abstract. The search for train connections in state-of-the-art commercial timetable information systems is based on a static schedule. Unfortunately, public transportation systems ...
Lennart Frede, Matthias Müller-Hannemann, Mat...
NDQA
2003
156views Education» more  NDQA 2003»
13 years 11 months ago
Toward a Question Answering Roadmap
Growth in government investment, academic research, and commercial question answering (QA) systems is motivating a need for increased planning and coordination. The internationali...
Mark T. Maybury
CLEF
2009
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Where in the Wikipedia Is That Answer? The XLDB at the GikiCLEF 2009 Task
GikiCLEF focused on the evaluation of the reasoning capabilities of systems to provide right answers for geographically-challenging topics. As we did not have previous experience ...
Nuno Cardoso, David Batista, Francisco J. Ló...
SIGMOD
2010
ACM
221views Database» more  SIGMOD 2010»
13 years 10 months ago
Analyzing the energy efficiency of a database server
Rising energy costs in large data centers are driving an agenda for energy-efficient computing. In this paper, we focus on the role of database software in affecting, and, ultimat...
Dimitris Tsirogiannis, Stavros Harizopoulos, Mehul...
SMA
2010
ACM
231views Solid Modeling» more  SMA 2010»
13 years 10 months ago
Fast and robust retrieval of Minkowski sums of rotating convex polyhedra in 3-space
We present a novel method for fast retrieval of exact Minkowski sums of pairs of convex polytopes in R3 , where one of the polytopes keeps rotating. The algorithm is based on pre-...
Naama Mayer, Efi Fogel, Dan Halperin