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SIGMOD
2003
ACM
136views Database» more  SIGMOD 2003»
14 years 9 months ago
A Characterization of the Sensitivity of Query Optimization to Storage Access Cost Parameters
Most relational query optimizers make use of information about the costs of accessing tuples and data structures on various storage devices. This information can at times be off b...
Frederick Reiss, Tapas Kanungo
MOBIHOC
2005
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Interference-aware topology control and QoS routing in multi-channel wireless mesh networks
The throughput of wireless networks can be significantly improved by multi-channel communications compared with single-channel communications since the use of multiple channels ca...
Jian Tang, Guoliang Xue, Weiyi Zhang
ACHI
2009
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
From Isolation to Communication: A Case Study Evaluation of Robot Assisted Play for Children with Autism with a Minimally Expres
– The general context of the work presented in this paper is assistive robotics with our long-term aim to support children with autism. This paper is part of the Aurora project t...
Ben Robins, Kerstin Dautenhahn, Paul Dickerson
CIVR
2007
Springer
180views Image Analysis» more  CIVR 2007»
14 years 3 months ago
Probabilistic matching and resemblance evaluation of shapes in trademark images
We present a novel matching and similarity evaluation method for planar geometric shapes represented by sets of polygonal curves. Given two shapes, the matching algorithm randomly...
Helmut Alt, Ludmila Scharf, Sven Scholz
SIGIR
2004
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
A search engine for historical manuscript images
Many museum and library archives are digitizing their large collections of handwritten historical manuscripts to enable public access to them. These collections are only available...
Toni M. Rath, R. Manmatha, Victor Lavrenko