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SIGIR
2005
ACM
15 years 6 months ago
Improving collection selection with overlap awareness in P2P search engines
Collection selection has been a research issue for years. Typically, in related work, precomputed statistics are employed in order to estimate the expected result quality of each ...
Matthias Bender, Sebastian Michel, Peter Triantafi...
VEE
2005
ACM
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15 years 6 months ago
Diagnosing performance overheads in the xen virtual machine environment
Virtual Machine (VM) environments (e.g., VMware and Xen) are experiencing a resurgence of interest for diverse uses including server consolidation and shared hosting. An applicati...
Aravind Menon, Jose Renato Santos, Yoshio Turner, ...
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CICLING
2005
Springer
15 years 6 months ago
Name Discrimination by Clustering Similar Contexts
It is relatively common for different people or organizations to share the same name. Given the increasing amount of information available online, this results in the ever growing...
Ted Pedersen, Amruta Purandare, Anagha Kulkarni
CIKM
2005
Springer
15 years 6 months ago
Towards estimating the number of distinct value combinations for a set of attributes
Accurately and efficiently estimating the number of distinct values for some attribute(s) or sets of attributes in a data set is of critical importance to many database operation...
Xiaohui Yu, Calisto Zuzarte, Kenneth C. Sevcik
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DIGRA
2005
Springer
15 years 6 months ago
Contexts, pleasures and preferences: girls playing computer games
In this paper, issues of girls and their gaming preferences are explored through observations of computer games sessions at an all-girl state school. What emerged is that preferen...
Diane Carr