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OOPSLA
2005
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Quantifying the performance of garbage collection vs. explicit memory management
Garbage collection yields numerous software engineering benefits, but its quantitative impact on performance remains elusive. One can compare the cost of conservative garbage col...
Matthew Hertz, Emery D. Berger
CLEF
2006
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
Statistical vs. Rule-Based Stemming for Monolingual French Retrieval
This paper describes our approach to the 2006 Adhoc Monolingual Information Retrieval run for French. The goal of our experiment was to compare the performance of a proposed stati...
Prasenjit Majumder, Mandar Mitra, Kalyankumar Datt...
CIKM
2009
Springer
13 years 11 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 ...
SIGCSE
2004
ACM
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13 years 10 months ago
Student culture vs group work in computer science
Our industrial advisory boards tell us that our students are well prepared technically, but they lack important group work skills. Simply adding project courses and requiring that...
William M. Waite, Michele H. Jackson, Amer Diwan, ...
NCA
2005
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
Controlling the Coverage of Grid Information Dissemination Protocols
Grid information dissemination protocols distribute information about the dynamic state of computational resources throughout interconnected wide area Grids. Performance metrics f...
Bhavin Gandhi, Sameer Tilak, Michael J. Lewis, Nae...