One of the major problems in building large-scale distributed systems is to anticipate the performance of the eventual solution before it has been built. This problem is especiall...
Yan (Jenny) Liu, Ian Gorton, Anna Liu, Shiping Che...
Following the agile philosophy that all core features of a system need an automated test harness, performance requirements also need such a check when they are essential for the s...
Web search engines crawl the web to fetch the data that they index. In this paper we re-examine that need, and evaluate the network costs associated with data acquisition, and alt...
Nick Craswell, Francis Crimmins, David Hawking, Al...
Abstract. In this paper, we present Microsearch, a search system suitable for small devices used in ubiquitous computing environments. Akin to a desktop search engine, Microsearch ...
This paper describes the improvement introduced in the Loquendo–Politecnico di Torino (LPT) speaker recognition system submitted to the NIST SRE10 evaluation campaign. This syst...