There are a few fundamental pointing-based user interface techniques for performing selections in 3D environments. One of these techniques is ray pointing, which makes selections b...
Greg S. Schmidt, Dennis G. Brown, Erik B. Tomlin, ...
Abstract. Query optimization is an important functionality of modern database systems and often based on estimating the selectivity of queries before actually executing them. Well-...
Many mobile devices have touch-sensitive screens that people interact with using fingers or thumbs. However, such interaction is difficult because targets become occluded, and bec...
Koji Yatani, Kurt Partridge, Marshall W. Bern, Mar...
Estimating the result size of a join is an important query optimization problem as it determines the choice of a good query evaluation strategy. Yet, there are few efficient techni...
- Location systems based on already-deployed cellular networks spend the resources of the underlying communications network. This paper proposes a middleware that reduces the consu...