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CHI
2007
ACM
14 years 11 months ago
An eye tracking study of the effect of target rank on web search
Web search engines present search results in a rank ordered list. This works when what a user wants is near the top, but sometimes the information that the user really wants is lo...
Zhiwei Guan, Edward Cutrell
CHI
2005
ACM
14 years 11 months ago
Gait phase effects in mobile interaction
One problem evaluating mobile and wearable devices is that they are used in mobile settings, making it hard to collect usability data. We present a study of tap-based selection of...
Andrew Crossan, Roderick Murray-Smith, Stephen A. ...
HPCA
2003
IEEE
14 years 11 months ago
TCP: Tag Correlating Prefetchers
Although caches for decades have been the backbone of the memory system, the speed gap between CPU and main memory suggests their augmentation with prefetching mechanisms. Recentl...
Zhigang Hu, Margaret Martonosi, Stefanos Kaxiras
SIGMOD
2007
ACM
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14 years 11 months ago
Distributed query evaluation with performance guarantees
Partial evaluation has recently proven an effective technique for evaluating Boolean XPath queries over a fragmented tree that is distributed over a number of sites. What left ope...
Gao Cong, Wenfei Fan, Anastasios Kementsietsidis
SIGMOD
2003
ACM
145views Database» more  SIGMOD 2003»
14 years 11 months ago
Evaluating Probabilistic Queries over Imprecise Data
Many applications employ sensors for monitoring entities such as temperature and wind speed. A centralized database tracks these entities to enable query processing. Due to contin...
Reynold Cheng, Dmitri V. Kalashnikov, Sunil Prabha...