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CIKM
2005
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
Selectivity-based partitioning: a divide-and-union paradigm for effective query optimization
Modern query optimizers select an efficient join ordering for a physical execution plan based essentially on the average join selectivity factors among the referenced tables. In ...
Neoklis Polyzotis
DIGRA
2005
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
Girls Creating Games: Challenging Existing Assumptions about Game Content
In a reinforcing cycle, few females create games and fewer girls than boys play games. In this paper, we increase our understanding of what girls like about games and gaming by de...
Jill Denner, Steven Bean, Linda L. Werner
IPTPS
2005
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
An Empirical Study of Free-Riding Behavior in the Maze P2P File-Sharing System
Maze1 is a P2P file-sharing system with an active and large user base. It is developed, deployed and operated by an academic research team. As such, it offers ample opportunities ...
Mao Yang, Zheng Zhang, Xiaoming Li, Yafei Dai
MHCI
2005
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
Searching common experience: a social communication tool based on mobile ad-hoc networking
As small digital cameras become more popular, opportunities to take photos are rapidly increasing. Photo sharing is a great way to maintain and revitalize relationships between fa...
Michimune Kohno, Jun Rekimoto
EDBTW
2004
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
Semantic Query Routing and Processing in P2P Database Systems: The ICS-FORTH SQPeer Middleware
Abstract. Peer-to-peer (P2P) computing is currently attracting enormous attention. In P2P systems a very large number of autonomous computing nodes (the peers) pool together their ...
Giorgos Kokkinidis, Vassilis Christophides