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EVOW
2010
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
2010
Springer
Abstract. We revisit Gaussian Adaptation (GaA), a black-box optimizer for discrete and continuous problems that has been developed in the late 1960’s. This largely neglected sear...
LOCA
2009
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
2009
Springer
Abstract. Wireless signal strength fingerprinting has become an increasingly popular technique for realizing indoor localization systems using existing WiFi infrastructures. Howev...
MIDDLEWARE
2009
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
2009
Springer
Abstract. Pervasive computing applications often entail continuous monitoring tasks, issuing persistent queries that return continuously updated views of the operational environmen...
ICDE
2008
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
2008
IEEE
Abstract— Performance of proxy caches for database federations that serve a large number of users is crucially dependent on its physical design. Current techniques, automated or ...
ADBIS
2008
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
2008
Springer
Abstract. We propose a new approach for enhancing collaborative information retrieval by means of incorporating positional data for a location-aware personalized retrieval process....