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2003
IEEE
15 years 4 months ago
Hardening Functions for Large Scale Distributed Computations
Many recent large-scale distributed computing applications utilize spare processor cycles of personal computers that are connected to the Internet. The resulting distributed compu...
Doug Szajda, Barry G. Lawson, Jason Owen
SIGMOD
1999
ACM
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15 years 3 months ago
Self-tuning Histograms: Building Histograms Without Looking at Data
In this paper, we introduce self-tuning histograms. Although similar in structure to traditional histograms, these histograms infer data distributions not by examining the data or...
Ashraf Aboulnaga, Surajit Chaudhuri
APVIS
2007
15 years 17 days ago
Adaptive sampling in three dimensions for volume rendering on GPUs
Direct volume rendering of large volumetric data sets on programmable graphics hardware is often limited by the amount of available graphics memory and the bandwidth from main mem...
Martin Kraus, Magnus Strengert, Thomas Klein, Thom...
NIPS
2007
15 years 16 days ago
Fast and Scalable Training of Semi-Supervised CRFs with Application to Activity Recognition
We present a new and efficient semi-supervised training method for parameter estimation and feature selection in conditional random fields (CRFs). In real-world applications suc...
Maryam Mahdaviani, Tanzeem Choudhury
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JCIT
2008
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14 years 11 months ago
A Multi-Agent Framework for Testing 3-Tier Distributed Systems Architecture
Lack of time and capital for software testing is an oft encountered problem in most organizations. The plethora of possible test cases for each software component makes software t...
Sunitha Ramanujam, Hany F. El Yamany, Miriam A. M....