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ASUNAM
2009
IEEE
13 years 5 months ago
Automatically Detecting Points of Interest and Social Networks from Tracking Positions of Avatars in a Virtual World
With hundreds of millions of users already today, virtual worlds will become an important factor in tomorrow's media landscape. In a virtual world, users are represented by s...
Frank Kappe, Bilal Zaka, Michael Steurer
INTERNET
2010
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13 years 5 months ago
Peer-to-Peer 3D Streaming
In multi-user networked virtual environments such as Second Life, 3D streaming techniques have been used to progressively download and render 3D objects and terrain, so that a ful...
Shun-Yun Hu, Jehn-Ruey Jiang, Bing-Yu Chen
IHI
2010
197views Healthcare» more  IHI 2010»
13 years 2 months ago
Beyond safe harbor: automatic discovery of health information de-identification policy alternatives
Regulations in various countries permit the reuse of health information without patient authorization provided the data is "de-identified". In the United States, for ins...
Kathleen Benitez, Grigorios Loukides, Bradley Mali...
JCST
2010
155views more  JCST 2010»
13 years 2 months ago
Efficient Location Updates for Continuous Queries over Moving Objects
Abstract The significant overhead related to frequent location updates from moving objects often results in poor performance. As most of the location updates do not affect the quer...
Yu-Ling Hsueh, Roger Zimmermann, Wei-Shinn Ku
SIGMOD
2011
ACM
158views Database» more  SIGMOD 2011»
12 years 10 months ago
Workload-aware database monitoring and consolidation
In most enterprises, databases are deployed on dedicated database servers. Often, these servers are underutilized much of the time. For example, in traces from almost 200 producti...
Carlo Curino, Evan P. C. Jones, Samuel Madden, Har...