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DSN
2006
IEEE
15 years 9 months ago
Evaluating the Performability of Systems with Background Jobs
As most computer systems are expected to remain operational 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, they must complete maintenance work while in operation. This work is in addition to the ...
Qi Zhang, Ningfang Mi, Evgenia Smirni, Alma Riska,...
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COGSCI
2008
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15 years 2 months ago
Exemplars, Prototypes, Similarities, and Rules in Category Representation: An Example of Hierarchical Bayesian Analysis
This article demonstrates the potential of using hierarchical Bayesian methods to relate models and data in the cognitive sciences. This is done using a worked example that consid...
Michael D. Lee, Wolf Vanpaemel
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SIGIR
2002
ACM
15 years 3 months ago
A critical examination of TDT's cost function
Topic Detection and Tracking (TDT) tasks are evaluated using a cost function. The standard TDT cost function assumes a constant probability of relevance P(rel) across all topics. ...
R. Manmatha, Ao Feng, James Allan
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ICAC
2006
IEEE
15 years 9 months ago
Autonomic Provisioning of Backend Databases in Dynamic Content Web Servers
— In autonomic provisioning, a resource manager allocates resources to an application, on-demand, e.g., during load spikes. Modelling-based approaches have proved very successful...
Jin Chen, Gokul Soundararajan, Cristiana Amza
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GCC
2006
Springer
15 years 7 months ago
Decentralized Workflow Execution for Virtual Enterprises in Grid Environment
With the emergence of global market and virtual enterprises, coordination of business processes in dispersed organizations by distributed workflow execution will take on more impo...
Wei Tan, Yushun Fan