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MDM
2007
Springer
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14 years 2 months ago
On Relaxing Contextual Preference Queries
Personalization systems exploit preferences for providing users with only relevant data from the huge volume of information that is currently available. We consider preferences th...
Kostas Stefanidis, Evaggelia Pitoura, Panos Vassil...
HRI
2009
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
How to approach humans?: strategies for social robots to initiate interaction
This paper proposes a model of approach behavior with which a robot can initiate conversation with people who are walking. We developed the model by learning from the failures in ...
Satoru Satake, Takayuki Kanda, Dylan F. Glas, Mich...
ACL
2012
11 years 11 months ago
Finding Bursty Topics from Microblogs
Microblogs such as Twitter reflect the general public’s reactions to major events. Bursty topics from microblogs reveal what events have attracted the most online attention. Al...
Qiming Diao, Jing Jiang, Feida Zhu, Ee-Peng Lim
ICIP
2008
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
Matching tracking sequences across widely separated cameras
In this paper, we present a new solution to the problem of matching tracking sequences across different cameras. Unlike snapshot-based appearance matching which matches objects by...
Yinghao Cai, Kaiqi Huang, Tieniu Tan
SIGMOD
2009
ACM
157views Database» more  SIGMOD 2009»
14 years 8 months ago
Asynchronous view maintenance for VLSD databases
The query models of the recent generation of very large scale distributed (VLSD) shared-nothing data storage systems, including our own PNUTS and others (e.g. BigTable, Dynamo, Ca...
Parag Agrawal, Adam Silberstein, Brian F. Cooper, ...