We present an automatic skew mitigation approach for userdefined MapReduce programs and present SkewTune, a system that implements this approach as a drop-in replacement for an e...
YongChul Kwon, Magdalena Balazinska, Bill Howe, Je...
Designing thermal management policies for today's power-dense server clusters is currently a challenge, since it is difficult to predict the exact temperature and performance...
We describe our experience building and using a reasoning system for providing context-based prompts to elders to take their medication. We describe the process of specification, ...
A well-known challenge of information retrieval is how to infer a user's underlying information need when the input query consists of only a few keywords. Question Answering (...
In this paper, we aim to detect human in video over large viewpoint changes which is very challenging due to the diversity of human appearance and motion from a wide spread of view...