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NSDI
2008
15 years 4 months ago
NetComplex: A Complexity Metric for Networked System Designs
The systems and networking community treasures "simple" system designs, but our evaluation of system simplicity often relies more on intuition and qualitative discussion...
Byung-Gon Chun, Sylvia Ratnasamy, Eddie Kohler
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WSC
2007
15 years 4 months ago
Extension of the direct optimization algorithm for noisy functions
DIRECT (DIviding RECTangles) is a deterministic global optimization algorithm for bound-constrained problems. The algorithm, based on a space-partitioning scheme, performs both gl...
Geng Deng, Michael C. Ferris
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WSC
2007
15 years 4 months ago
A hybrid inventory control system approach applied to the food industry
The appropriate production and inventory control policy is a key factor for modern enterprises’ success in competitive environment. In the food industry, most of food manufactur...
David Claudio, Jie Zhang, Ying Zhang
CSCW
2008
ACM
15 years 3 months ago
The view from the trenches: organization, power, and technology at two nonprofit homeless outreach centers
Nonprofit social service organizations provide the backbone of social support infrastructure in the U.S. and around the world. As the ecology of information exchange moves evermor...
Christopher A. Le Dantec, W. Keith Edwards
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CSSE
2008
IEEE
15 years 3 months ago
Image Retrieval Based on Bit-Plane Distribution Entropy
Based on the analysis of color histogram for image retrieval, a new descriptor, bit-plane distribution entropy (BPDE), is proposed in this paper. The image is firstly divided into ...
Zhao Shan, Wang Hai-tao