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SEUS
2009
IEEE
16 years 15 days ago
Using Context Awareness to Improve Quality of Information Retrieval in Pervasive Computing
Publish-subscribe-query information broker middleware offers great promise to users of pervasive computing systems requiring access to information. However, users of publish-subscr...
Joseph P. Loyall, Richard E. Schantz
SPIRE
2005
Springer
15 years 11 months ago
Using the k-Nearest Neighbor Graph for Proximity Searching in Metric Spaces
Proximity searching consists in retrieving from a database, objects that are close to a query. For this type of searching problem, the most general model is the metric space, where...
Rodrigo Paredes, Edgar Chávez
AIED
2005
Springer
15 years 11 months ago
On Using Learning Curves to Evaluate ITS
Measuring the efficacy of ITS can be hard because there are many confounding factors: short, well-isolated studies suffer from insufficient interaction with the system, while longe...
Brent Martin, Kenneth R. Koedinger, Antonija Mitro...
ECRTS
2009
IEEE
15 years 3 months ago
Using Randomized Caches in Probabilistic Real-Time Systems
While hardware caches are generally effective at improving application performance, they greatly complicate performance prediction. Slight changes in memory layout or data access p...
Eduardo Quiñones, Emery D. Berger, Guillem ...
INFOCOM
2012
IEEE
13 years 8 months ago
The Bloom paradox: When not to use a Bloom filter?
—In this paper, we uncover the Bloom paradox in Bloom filters: sometimes, it is better to disregard the query results of Bloom filters, and in fact not to even query them, thus...
Ori Rottenstreich, Isaac Keslassy