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FASE
2004
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
A Formal Treatment of Context-Awareness
Context-aware computing refers to a computing paradigm in which the behavior of individual components is determined by the circumstances in which they find themselves to an extent...
Gruia-Catalin Roman, Christine Julien, Jamie Payto...
SEMWEB
2004
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
Top-k Query Evaluation for Schema-Based Peer-to-Peer Networks
Abstract. Increasing the number of peers in a peer-to-peer network usually increases the number of answers to a given query as well. While having more answers is nice in principle,...
Wolfgang Nejdl, Wolf Siberski, Uwe Thaden, Wolf-Ti...
FOCS
2003
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
Quantum Search of Spatial Regions
: Can Grover’s algorithm speed up search of a physical region—for example a 2-D grid of size √ n × √ n? The problem is that √ n time seems to be needed for each query, j...
Scott Aaronson, Andris Ambainis
FSTTCS
2003
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
An Equational Theory for Transactions
Abstract. Transactions are commonly described as being ACID: Allor-nothing, Consistent, Isolated and Durable. However, although these words convey a powerful intuition, the ACID pr...
Andrew P. Black, Vincent Cremet, Rachid Guerraoui,...
SG
2010
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
Automatic Blending of Multiple Perspective Views for Aesthetic Composition
Hand-drawn pictures differ from ordinary perspective images in that the entire scene is composed of local feature regions each of which is projected individually as seen from its ...
Kairi Mashio, Kenichi Yoshida, Shigeo Takahashi, M...