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AAAI
1994
14 years 11 months ago
Improving Learning Performance Through Rational Resource Allocation
This article shows how rational analysis can be used to minimize learning cost for a general class of statistical learning problems. We discuss the factors that influence learning...
Jonathan Gratch, Steve A. Chien, Gerald DeJong
ICDE
1999
IEEE
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15 years 11 months ago
Improving the Access Time Performance of Serpentine Tape Drives
This paper presents a general model for estimating access times of serpentine tape drives. The model is used to schedule I/O requests in order to minimize the total access time. W...
Olav Sandstå, Roger Midtstraum
CHI
2008
ACM
15 years 10 months ago
Electronic voting machines versus traditional methods: improved preference, similar performance
In the 2006 U.S. election, it was estimated that over 66 million people would be voting on direct recording electronic (DRE) systems in 34% of the nation's counties [8]. Alth...
Sarah P. Everett, Kristen K. Greene, Michael D. By...
CIKM
2001
Springer
15 years 2 months ago
Relevance Score Normalization for Metasearch
Given the ranked lists of documents returned by multiple search engines in response to a given query, the problem of metasearch is to combine these lists in a way which optimizes ...
Mark H. Montague, Javed A. Aslam
ICNP
2003
IEEE
15 years 3 months ago
Improving TCP Startup Performance Using Active Measurements: Algorithm and Evaluation
TCP Slow Start exponentially increases the congestion window size to detect the proper congestion window for a network path. This often results in significant packet loss, while ...
Ningning Hu, Peter Steenkiste