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CIKM
2011
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Personalizing web search results by reading level
Traditionally, search engines have ignored the reading difficulty of documents and the reading proficiency of users in computing a document ranking. This is one reason why Web se...
Kevyn Collins-Thompson, Paul N. Bennett, Ryen W. W...
CORR
2012
Springer
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13 years 7 months ago
Faster Approximate Distance Queries and Compact Routing in Sparse Graphs
A distance oracle is a compact representation of the shortest distance matrix of a graph. It can be queried to retrieve approximate distances and corresponding paths between any p...
Rachit Agarwal, Brighten Godfrey, Sariel Har-Peled
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ISSTA
2012
ACM
13 years 2 months ago
Residual investigation: predictive and precise bug detection
We introduce the concept of “residual investigation” for program analysis. A residual investigation is a dynamic check installed as a result of running a static analysis that ...
Kaituo Li, Christoph Reichenbach, Christoph Csalln...
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RECOMB
2012
Springer
13 years 2 months ago
Recovering the Tree-Like Trend of Evolution Despite Extensive Lateral Genetic Transfer: A Probabilistic Analysis
Abstract. Lateral gene transfer (LGT) is a common mechanism of nonvertical evolution where genetic material is transferred between two more or less distantly related organisms. It ...
Sebastien Roch, Sagi Snir
EUROSYS
2007
ACM
15 years 8 months ago
hFS: a hybrid file system prototype for improving small file and metadata performance
Two oft-cited file systems, the Fast File System (FFS) and the Log-Structured File System (LFS), adopt two sharply different update strategies—update-in-place and update-out-of-...
Zhihui Zhang, Kanad Ghose