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CIKM
2009
Springer
14 years 7 months ago
Measuring system performance and topic discernment using generalized adaptive-weight mean
Standard approaches to evaluating and comparing information retrieval systems compute simple averages of performance statistics across individual topics to measure the overall sys...
Chung Tong Lee, Vishwa Vinay, Eduarda Mendes Rodri...
ICPR
2008
IEEE
15 years 4 months ago
Learning visual dictionaries and decision lists for object recognition
Visual dictionaries are widely employed in object recognition to map unordered bags of local region descriptors into feature vectors for image classification. Most visual dictiona...
Wei Zhang, Thomas G. Dietterich
SIGMETRICS
2002
ACM
133views Hardware» more  SIGMETRICS 2002»
14 years 9 months ago
On the stability of network distance estimation
Estimating end-to-end Internet distance can benefit many applications and services, such as efficient overlay construction, overlay routing and location, and peer-topeer systems. ...
Yan Chen, Khian Hao Lim, Randy H. Katz, Chris Over...
MSS
2007
IEEE
82views Hardware» more  MSS 2007»
15 years 4 months ago
Tornado Codes for MAID Archival Storage
This paper examines the application of Tornado Codes, a class of low density parity check (LDPC) erasure codes, to archival storage systems based on massive arrays of idle disks (...
Matthew Woitaszek, Henry M. Tufo
HICSS
2009
IEEE
104views Biometrics» more  HICSS 2009»
15 years 4 months ago
Celebrating Diversity in Volunteer Computing
The computing resources in a volunteer computing system are highly diverse in terms of software and hardware type, speed, availability, reliability, network connectivity, and othe...
David P. Anderson, Kevin Reed