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PODS
2005
ACM
151views Database» more  PODS 2005»
14 years 8 months ago
Estimating arbitrary subset sums with few probes
Suppose we have a large table T of items i, each with a weight wi, e.g., people and their salary. In a general preprocessing step for estimating arbitrary subset sums, we assign e...
Noga Alon, Nick G. Duffield, Carsten Lund, Mikkel ...
SIGIR
2003
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
Evaluating different methods of estimating retrieval quality for resource selection
In a federated digital library system, it is too expensive to query every accessible library. Resource selection is the task to decide to which libraries a query should be routed....
Henrik Nottelmann, Norbert Fuhr
MM
2004
ACM
160views Multimedia» more  MM 2004»
14 years 2 months ago
New ways of worldmaking: the Alterne platform for VR art
We introduce a novel approach to the creation of Virtual Reality Art installations, which supports the design of alternative worlds, in which laws of Physics can be redefined to i...
Marc Cavazza, Jean-Luc Lugrin, Simon Hartley, Paol...
JCDL
2006
ACM
71views Education» more  JCDL 2006»
14 years 2 months ago
Using controlled query generation to evaluate blind relevance feedback algorithms
Currently in document retrieval there are many algorithms each with different strengths and weakness. There is some difficulty, however, in evaluating the impact of the test quer...
Chris Jordan, Carolyn R. Watters, Qigang Gao
CIKM
2003
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
High dimensional reverse nearest neighbor queries
Reverse Nearest Neighbor (RNN) queries are of particular interest in a wide range of applications such as decision support systems, profile based marketing, data streaming, docum...
Amit Singh, Hakan Ferhatosmanoglu, Ali Saman Tosun