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Conference Paper: The Hong Kong Telephone Directory Enquiry System
Title | The Hong Kong Telephone Directory Enquiry System |
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Authors | |
Keywords | Computers Software computers Computer programming |
Issue Date | 1996 |
Publisher | IEEE. |
Citation | Asia-Pacific Software Engineering Conference Proceedings, Seoul, Korea, 4-7 December 1996, p. 268-275 How to Cite? |
Abstract | Concerns the design and performance of the telephone directory enquiry system that has been newly adopted in Hong Kong. This system maintains three million telephone records and supports over 40,000 enquiries per hour at the peak. In Hong Kong society, the uses of English and Chinese (in particular, Cantonese) has been blending in a thrust of exciting language culture, giving rise to a variety of telephone enquires that traditional B-tree or hashing-based telephone directory enquiry systems fail to handle. The efficiency and flexibility achieved by the new system stem from hosting all indexing data structures in the main memory; these data structures occupy about half a giga-byte and would have been considered too expensive to be placed in main memory in the past. |
Persistent Identifier | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/45569 |
ISSN | 2020 SCImago Journal Rankings: 0.208 |
DC Field | Value | Language |
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dc.contributor.author | Chow, KP | en_HK |
dc.contributor.author | Lam, TW | en_HK |
dc.contributor.author | Lee, KH | en_HK |
dc.date.accessioned | 2007-10-30T06:29:23Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2007-10-30T06:29:23Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 1996 | en_HK |
dc.identifier.citation | Asia-Pacific Software Engineering Conference Proceedings, Seoul, Korea, 4-7 December 1996, p. 268-275 | en_HK |
dc.identifier.issn | 1530-1362 | en_HK |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/45569 | - |
dc.description.abstract | Concerns the design and performance of the telephone directory enquiry system that has been newly adopted in Hong Kong. This system maintains three million telephone records and supports over 40,000 enquiries per hour at the peak. In Hong Kong society, the uses of English and Chinese (in particular, Cantonese) has been blending in a thrust of exciting language culture, giving rise to a variety of telephone enquires that traditional B-tree or hashing-based telephone directory enquiry systems fail to handle. The efficiency and flexibility achieved by the new system stem from hosting all indexing data structures in the main memory; these data structures occupy about half a giga-byte and would have been considered too expensive to be placed in main memory in the past. | en_HK |
dc.language | eng | en_HK |
dc.publisher | IEEE. | en_HK |
dc.relation.ispartof | Asia Pacific Software Engineering Conference Proceedings | - |
dc.rights | ©1996 IEEE. Personal use of this material is permitted. However, permission to reprint/republish this material for advertising or promotional purposes or for creating new collective works for resale or redistribution to servers or lists, or to reuse any copyrighted component of this work in other works must be obtained from the IEEE. | - |
dc.subject | Computers | en_HK |
dc.subject | Software computers | en_HK |
dc.subject | Computer programming | en_HK |
dc.title | The Hong Kong Telephone Directory Enquiry System | en_HK |
dc.type | Conference_Paper | en_HK |
dc.identifier.openurl | http://library.hku.hk:4550/resserv?sid=HKU:IR&issn=1530-1362&volume=&spage=268&epage=275&date=1996&atitle=The+Hong+Kong+Telephone+Directory+Enquiry+System | en_HK |
dc.description.nature | published_or_final_version | en_HK |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1109/APSEC.1996.566761 | en_HK |
dc.identifier.scopus | eid_2-s2.0-85061206147 | - |
dc.identifier.hkuros | 25243 | - |
dc.identifier.spage | 268 | - |
dc.identifier.epage | 275 | - |
dc.identifier.issnl | 1530-1362 | - |