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IMC
2006
ACM
15 years 5 months ago
Rarest first and choke algorithms are enough
The performance of peer-to-peer file replication comes from its piece and peer selection strategies. Two such strategies have been introduced by the BitTorrent protocol: the rare...
Arnaud Legout, Guillaume Urvoy-Keller, Pietro Mich...
SIGECOM
2006
ACM
106views ECommerce» more  SIGECOM 2006»
15 years 5 months ago
Approximation algorithms and online mechanisms for item pricing
We present approximation and online algorithms for a number of problems of pricing items for sale so as to maximize seller’s revenue in an unlimited supply setting. Our first r...
Maria-Florina Balcan, Avrim Blum
SIGIR
2005
ACM
15 years 4 months ago
Boosted decision trees for word recognition in handwritten document retrieval
Recognition and retrieval of historical handwritten material is an unsolved problem. We propose a novel approach to recognizing and retrieving handwritten manuscripts, based upon ...
Nicholas R. Howe, Toni M. Rath, R. Manmatha
VLDB
2005
ACM
126views Database» more  VLDB 2005»
15 years 4 months ago
Consistently Estimating the Selectivity of Conjuncts of Predicates
Cost-based query optimizers need to estimate the selectivity of conjunctive predicates when comparing alternative query execution plans. To this end, advanced optimizers use multi...
Volker Markl, Nimrod Megiddo, Marcel Kutsch, Tam M...
ERLANG
2003
ACM
15 years 4 months ago
Evaluating distributed functional languages for telecommunications software
The distributed telecommunications sector not only requires minimal time to market, but also software that is reliable, available, maintainable and scalable. High level programmin...
Jan Henry Nyström, Philip W. Trinder, David J...