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SIGMOD
2004
ACM
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14 years 7 months ago
Approximation Techniques for Spatial Data
Spatial Database Management Systems (SDBMS), e.g., Geographical Information Systems, that manage spatial objects such as points, lines, and hyper-rectangles, often have very high ...
Abhinandan Das, Johannes Gehrke, Mirek Riedewald
ACMDIS
2006
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
Collaborative architecture design and evaluation
In this paper we describe a collaborative environment created to support distributed evaluation of a complex system architecture. The approach couples an interactive architecture ...
Steven R. Haynes, Amie L. Skattebo, Jonathan A. Si...
CHI
2006
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Because I carry my cell phone anyway: functional location-based reminder applications
Although they have potential, to date location-based information systems have not radically improved the way we interact with our surroundings. To study related issues, we develop...
Pamela J. Ludford, Dan Frankowski, Ken Reily, Kurt...
ICDE
2007
IEEE
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14 years 9 months ago
Accelerating Profile Queries in Elevation Maps
Elevation maps are a widely used spatial data representation in geographical information systems (GIS). Paths on elevation maps can be characterized by profiles, which describe re...
Feng Pan, Wei Wang 0010, Leonard McMillan
CHI
2005
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Chit chat club: bridging virtual and physical space for social interaction
In this work, we create an audio-video link via an interactive sculpture to facilitate casual, sociable communication between two remote spaces. This communication installation wa...
Karrie Karahalios, Kelly Dobson