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GEOINFORMATICA
2008
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Efficient Implementation Techniques for Topological Predicates on Complex Spatial Objects
Topological relationships like overlap, inside, meet, and disjoint uniquely characterize the relative position between objects in space. For a long time, they have been a focus of...
Reasey Praing, Markus Schneider
STORAGESS
2005
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
Pvault: a client server system providing mobile access to personal data
In this paper we describe the design for the Pvault software, which is a personal data manager that stores and retrieves data from a remote untrusted data server securely. The maj...
Ravi Chandra Jammalamadaka, Sharad Mehrotra, Nalin...
WWW
2008
ACM
14 years 9 months ago
Acquisition of a vernacular gazetteer from web sources
Vernacular place names are names that are commonly in use to refer to geographical places. For purposes of effective information retrieval, the spatial extent associated with thes...
Florian A. Twaroch, Christopher B. Jones, Alia I. ...
SIGIR
2009
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
What queries are likely to recur in web search?
We study the recurrence dynamics of queries in Web search by analysing a large real-world query log dataset. We find that query frequency is more useful in predicting collective ...
Dell Zhang, Jinsong Lu
SIGMOD
2009
ACM
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14 years 9 months ago
CourseRank: a social system for course planning
Special-purpose social sites can offer valuable services to well-defined, closed, communities, e.g., in a university or in a corporation. The purpose of this demo is to show the c...
Benjamin Bercovitz, Filip Kaliszan, Georgia Koutri...