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EDBT
2010
ACM
135views Database» more  EDBT 2010»
15 years 5 months ago
Region-based online promotion analysis
This paper addresses a fundamental and challenging problem with broad applications: efficient processing of region-based promotion queries, i.e., to discover the top-k most inter...
Tianyi Wu, Yizhou Sun, Cuiping Li, Jiawei Han
SC
2009
ACM
15 years 5 months ago
FALCON: a system for reliable checkpoint recovery in shared grid environments
In Fine-Grained Cycle Sharing (FGCS) systems, machine owners voluntarily share their unused CPU cycles with guest jobs, as long as the performance degradation is tolerable. For gu...
Tanzima Zerin Islam, Saurabh Bagchi, Rudolf Eigenm...
INFOCOM
2009
IEEE
15 years 5 months ago
FiConn: Using Backup Port for Server Interconnection in Data Centers
Abstract— The goal of data center networking is to interconnect a large number of server machines with low equipment cost, high and balanced network capacity, and robustness to l...
Dan Li, Chuanxiong Guo, Haitao Wu, Kun Tan, Songwu...
GECCO
2009
Springer
146views Optimization» more  GECCO 2009»
15 years 5 months ago
Using a distance metric to guide PSO algorithms for many-objective optimization
In this paper we propose to use a distance metric based on user-preferences to efficiently find solutions for manyobjective problems. We use a particle swarm optimization (PSO) a...
Upali K. Wickramasinghe, Xiaodong Li
ISVC
2009
Springer
15 years 5 months ago
Fast Occlusion Sweeping
While realistic illumination significantly improves the visual quality and perception of rendered images, it is often very expensive to compute. In this paper, we propose a new al...
Mayank Singh, Cem Yuksel, Donald H. House