SIGMETRICS
2011
ACM
12 years 7 months ago
2011
ACM
Branch taken rate and transition rate have been proposed as metrics to characterize the branch predictability. However, these two metrics may misclassify branches with regular his...
SIGMETRICS
2011
ACM
12 years 7 months ago
2011
ACM
Many network links in developing regions operate in the subpacket regime, an environment where the typical per-flow throughput is less than 1 packet per round-trip time. TCP and ...
SIGIR
2011
ACM
12 years 7 months ago
2011
ACM
Ranking function performance reached a plateau in 1994. The reason for this is investigated. First the performance of BM25 is measured as the proportion of queries satisfied on th...
MOBISYS
2011
ACM
12 years 7 months ago
2011
ACM
The explosive growth of the mobile application market has made it a significant challenge for the users to find interesting applications in crowded App Stores. To alleviate this...
MOBISYS
2011
ACM
12 years 7 months ago
2011
ACM
We present an indoor positioning system that measures location using disturbances of the Earth's magnetic field caused by structural steel elements in a building. The presenc...
GECCO
2011
Springer
12 years 8 months ago
2011
Springer
Novelty search is a recently proposed method for evolutionary computation designed to avoid the problem of deception, in which the fitness function guides the search process away...
EUROSYS
2011
ACM
12 years 8 months ago
2011
ACM
The increasing popularity of cloud storage services has lead companies that handle critical data to think about using these services for their storage needs. Medical record databa...
EUROSYS
2011
ACM
12 years 8 months ago
2011
ACM
To improve data availability and resilience MapReduce frameworks use file systems that replicate data uniformly. However, analysis of job logs from a large production cluster show...
EUROSYS
2011
ACM
12 years 8 months ago
2011
ACM
Multicore computers pose a substantial challenge to infrastructure software such as operating systems or databases. Such software typically evolves slower than the underlying hard...
CHI
2011
ACM
12 years 8 months ago
2011
ACM
We present a study that investigates user performance benefits of 3D stereo in modern video games. Based on an analysis of several video games that are best suited for use with co...