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SIGCOMM
2009
ACM
15 years 10 months ago
ROAR: increasing the flexibility and performance of distributed search
To search the web quickly, search engines partition the web index over many machines, and consult every partition when answering a query. To increase throughput, replicas are adde...
Costin Raiciu, Felipe Huici, Mark Handley, David S...
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GLOBECOM
2006
IEEE
15 years 9 months ago
Performance Analysis of Distributed Source Coding and Packet Aggregation in Wireless Sensor Networks
— In this paper, we propose a theoretical setup for evaluation of energy efficiency of wireless sensor networks (WSNs) with distributed source coding (DSC) algorithms and packet...
L. Di Paolo, Carlo Fischione, Carlo Graziosi, Fort...
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ICC
2007
IEEE
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On the Approximation of the Linear Combination of Log-Normal RVs via Pearson Type IV Distribution: Application to UWB Performanc
— Approximating the sum of Log–Normal random variables (RVs) is a long–standing open issue, in the old and recent literature, and many approaches have been proposed to deal w...
Marco Di Renzo, Fabio Graziosi, Fortunato Santucci
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MCS
2007
Springer
15 years 9 months ago
Applying Data Fusion Methods to Passage Retrieval in QAS
Abstract. This paper investigates the use of diverse data fusion methods to improve the performance of the passage retrieval component in a question answering system. Our results o...
Hans Ulrich Christensen, Daniel Ortiz Arroyo
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AGILEDC
2006
IEEE
15 years 9 months ago
The Role of Story Cards and the Wall in XP teams: A Distributed Cognition Perspective
Much of the knowledge used within an XP team is tacit, i.e. it is hidden and intangible. Two tangible artefacts that carry information about the team’s work are the index cards ...
Helen Sharp, Hugh Robinson, Judith Segal, Dominic ...