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OPODIS
2010
14 years 7 months ago
On the Automated Implementation of Time-Based Paxos Using the IOA Compiler
Paxos is a well known algorithm for achieving consensus in distributed environments with uncertain processing and communication timing. Implementations of its variants have been s...
Chryssis Georgiou, Procopis Hadjiprocopiou, Peter ...
LREC
2008
131views Education» more  LREC 2008»
14 years 11 months ago
System Evaluation on a Named Entity Corpus from Clinical Notes
This paper presents the evaluation of the dictionary look-up component of Mayo Clinic's Information Extraction system. The component was tested on a corpus of 160 free-text c...
Karin Schuler, Vinod Kaggal, James J. Masanz, Phil...
IPPS
2006
IEEE
15 years 3 months ago
Making lockless synchronization fast: performance implications of memory reclamation
Achieving high performance for concurrent applications on modern multiprocessors remains challenging. Many programmers avoid locking to improve performance, while others replace l...
Thomas E. Hart, Paul E. McKenney, Angela Demke Bro...
PODS
2002
ACM
154views Database» more  PODS 2002»
15 years 10 months ago
How to Evaluate Multiple Range-Sum Queries Progressively
Decision support system users typically submit batches of range-sum queries simultaneously rather than issuing individual, unrelated queries. We propose a wavelet based technique ...
Rolfe R. Schmidt, Cyrus Shahabi
CIG
2005
IEEE
15 years 3 months ago
Evolving a Neural Network Location Evaluator to Play Ms. Pac-Man
Ms. Pac-Man is a challenging, classic arcade game with a certain cult status. This paper reports attempts to evolve a Pac-Man player, where the control algorithm uses a neural net...
Simon M. Lucas