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EUROSYS
2008
ACM
15 years 7 months ago
GreenFS: making enterprise computers greener by protecting them better
Hard disks contain data—frequently an irreplaceable asset of high monetary and non-monetary value. At the same time, hard disks are mechanical devices that consume power, are no...
Nikolai Joukov, Josef Sipek
SIGECOM
2008
ACM
220views ECommerce» more  SIGECOM 2008»
14 years 10 months ago
Better redistribution with inefficient allocation in multi-unit auctions with unit demand
For the problem of allocating one or more items among a group of competing agents, the Vickrey-Clarke-Groves (VCG) mechanism is strategy-proof and efficient. However, the VCG mech...
Mingyu Guo, Vincent Conitzer
AIED
2007
Springer
15 years 2 months ago
'Tis Better to Construct than to Receive? The Effects of Diagram Tools on Causal Reasoning
Previous research on the use of diagrams for argumentation instruction has highlighted, but not conclusively demonstrated, their potential benefits. We examine the relative benefit...
Matthew W. Easterday, Vincent Aleven, Richard Sche...
ICCV
2011
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
Building a better probabilistic model of images by factorization
We describe a directed bilinear model that learns higherorder groupings among features of natural images. The model represents images in terms of two sets of latent variables: one...
Jack Culpepper, Jascha Sohl-Dickstein, Bruno Olaha...
KDD
2010
ACM
199views Data Mining» more  KDD 2010»
15 years 2 months ago
Overlapping experiment infrastructure: more, better, faster experimentation
At Google, experimentation is practically a mantra; we evaluate almost every change that potentially affects what our users experience. Such changes include not only obvious user-...
Diane Tang, Ashish Agarwal, Deirdre O'Brien, Mike ...