We build an efficient and reliable data transport protocol on top of the Short Message Service (SMS). We conduct a series of experiments to characterize SMS behaviour under bursty...
In this paper, we propose a general framework for distributed boosting intended for efficient integrating specialized classifiers learned over very large and distributed homogeneo...
Urban street-parking availability statistics are challenging to obtain in real-time but would greatly benefit society by reducing traffic congestion. In this paper we present the ...
One of the most common operations in analytic query processing is the application of an aggregate function to the result of a relational join. We describe an algorithm for computi...
Chris Jermaine, Alin Dobra, Subramanian Arumugam, ...
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