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MST
2006
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14 years 11 months ago
Simple Efficient Load-Balancing Algorithms for Peer-to-Peer Systems
Load balancing is a critical issue for the efficient operation of peerto-peer networks. We give two new load-balancing protocols whose provable performance guarantees are within a...
David R. Karger, Matthias Ruhl
SIGIR
2008
ACM
14 years 11 months ago
A simple and efficient sampling method for estimating AP and NDCG
We consider the problem of large scale retrieval evaluation. Recently two methods based on random sampling were proposed as a solution to the extensive effort required to judge te...
Emine Yilmaz, Evangelos Kanoulas, Javed A. Aslam
PODS
2011
ACM
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14 years 2 months ago
Beyond simple aggregates: indexing for summary queries
Database queries can be broadly classified into two categories: reporting queries and aggregation queries. The former retrieves a collection of records from the database that mat...
Zhewei Wei, Ke Yi
ICFP
2003
ACM
15 years 11 months ago
FreshML: programming with binders made simple
FreshML extends ML with elegant and practical constructs for declaring and manipulating syntactical data involving statically scoped binding operations. User-declared FreshML data...
Mark R. Shinwell, Andrew M. Pitts, Murdoch Gabbay
INFOCOM
2009
IEEE
15 years 6 months ago
Keep Cache Replacement Simple in Peer-Assisted VoD Systems
—Peer-assisted Video-on-Demand (VoD) systems have not only received substantial recent research attention, but also been implemented and deployed with success in large-scale real...
Jiahua Wu, Baochun Li