We examine a class of collective coin- ipping games that arises from randomized distributed algorithms with halting failures. In these games, a sequence of local coin ips is gener...
Blog post opinion retrieval aims at finding blog posts that are relevant and opinionated about a user’s query. In this paper we propose a simple probabilistic model for assigni...
Abstract. Fine-grained lock protocols with lock modes and lock granules adjusted to the various XML processing models, allow for highly concurrent transaction processing on XML tre...
In artificial intelligence and pervasive computing research, inferring users' high-level goals from activity sequences is an important task. A major challenge in goal recogni...
-- A bug-tracking system such as Bugzilla contains bug reports (BRs) collected from various sources such as development teams, testing teams, and end users. When bug reporters subm...