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GIS
1998
ACM
13 years 8 months ago
Natural-Language Spatial Relations Between Linear and Areal Objects: The Topology and Metric of English-Language Terms
Spatial relations are the basis for many selections users perform when they query geographic information systems (GISs). Although such query languages use natural-language-like te...
A. Rashid B. M. Shariff, Max J. Egenhofer, David M...
QUESTA
1998
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13 years 8 months ago
An approximation method for complete solutions of Markov-modulated fluid models
This paper presents an approximation method for numerically solving general Markov modulated fluid models which are widely used in modelling communications and computer systems. ...
David D. McDonald, Kun Qian
PVLDB
2010
122views more  PVLDB 2010»
13 years 7 months ago
Database Replication: a Tale of Research across Communities
Replication is a key mechanism to achieve scalability and fault-tolerance in databases. Its importance has recently been further increased because of the role it plays in achievin...
Bettina Kemme, Gustavo Alonso
MOBISYS
2007
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
COMBINE: leveraging the power of wireless peers through collaborative downloading
Mobile devices are increasingly equipped with multiple network interfaces: Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) interfaces for local connectivity and Wireless Wide Area Network (WWA...
Ganesh Ananthanarayanan, Venkata N. Padmanabhan, L...
ISM
2008
IEEE
163views Multimedia» more  ISM 2008»
14 years 3 months ago
Cocktail Party on the Mobile
We present the architecture, user interface and prototype implementation of Fluid Voice, a proximity based mobile group communication system for opportunistic social exchanges. It...
Kwan Hong Lee, Andrew Lippman, Thiago Santos