Experience-based continuous learning is essential for improving products, processes, and technologies in emerging as well as established areas of business and engineering science....
There can often be a gap between theory and its implications for practice in human-behavioral studies. This gap can be particularly significant outside psychology departments. Most...
Fault-tolerant, replicated file systems are a crucial component of today's data centers. Despite their huge complexity, these systems are typically specified only in brief pr...
223 views122 votes15 years 10 months ago ICPPW 2002»
Different parallelization methods vary in their system requirements, programming styles, efficiency of exploring parallelism, and the application characteristics they can handle....
We describe an approach to quantitatively evaluating human-assisted failure-recovery tools and processes in the environment of modern Internet- and enterprise-class server systems...
Graph-based semi-supervised learning (SSL) algorithms have been successfully used to extract class-instance pairs from large unstructured and structured text collections. However,...
181 views150 votes15 years 2 months ago NAACL 2010»
We consider the problem of predicting a movie's opening weekend revenue. Previous work on this problem has used metadata about a movie--e.g., its genre, MPAA rating, and cast...
139 views125 votes15 years 11 months ago ICCS 2009»
Recent years have seen growth in the number of algorithms designed to solve challenging simulation-based nonlinear optimization problems. One such algorithm is the Trust-Region Par...
93 views134 votes15 years 11 months ago COLCOM 2007»
Abstract—This article describes a distributed classroom experiment carried out by five universities in the US and Europe at the beginning of 2007. This experiment was motivated ...
Abstract. In the last few years, the microprocessors technologies have been definitely moving to multi-core architectures, in order to improve performances as well as reduce power ...