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MVA
2000
203views Computer Vision» more  MVA 2000»
13 years 8 months ago
An Environment to Test Progressive Refinement of Indexing for Content-Based Image Retrieval
Content-based image retrieval is a fairly new discipline. Yet research in this field has highlighted many approaches that show good performance in specific subproblems using singl...
Maria Grazia Albanesi, Marco Ferretti, Alessandro ...
IPSN
2004
Springer
14 years 23 days ago
Adaptive clock synchronization in sensor networks
Recent advances in technology have made low cost, low power wireless sensors a reality. Clock synchronization is an important service in any distributed system, including sensor n...
Santashil PalChaudhuri, Amit Kumar Saha, David B. ...
IWCMC
2009
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
Adaptive antenna selection at mobile stations for SDMA in WiMAX networks
The IEEE 802.16/WiMAX standards has fully embraced multi-antenna technology and can, thus, deliver robust performance and high transmission rates. Nevertheless, due to its inheren...
Tairan Wang, Zhifeng Tao, Andreas F. Molisch, Phil...
CIKM
2009
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
Inverted indexes vs. bitmap indexes in decision support systems
Bitmap indexes are widely used in Decision Support Systems (DSSs) to improve query performance. In this paper, we evaluate the use of compressed inverted indexes with adapted quer...
Truls A. Bjørklund, Nils Grimsmo, Johannes ...
SSD
2005
Springer
175views Database» more  SSD 2005»
14 years 26 days ago
Probabilistic Spatial Queries on Existentially Uncertain Data
We study the problem of answering spatial queries in databases where objects exist with some uncertainty and they are associated with an existential probability. The goal of a thre...
Xiangyuan Dai, Man Lung Yiu, Nikos Mamoulis, Yufei...