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PVLDB
2010
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14 years 4 months ago
Schism: a Workload-Driven Approach to Database Replication and Partitioning
We present Schism, a novel workload-aware approach for database partitioning and replication designed to improve scalability of sharednothing distributed databases. Because distri...
Carlo Curino, Yang Zhang, Evan P. C. Jones, Samuel...
TCS
2010
14 years 4 months ago
Maximizing the minimum load for selfish agents
We consider the problem of maximizing the minimum load for machines that are controlled by selfish agents, who are only interested in maximizing their own profit. Unlike the class...
Leah Epstein, Rob van Stee
TMI
2010
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Tubular Surface Segmentation for Extracting Anatomical Structures From Medical Imagery
Abstract--This work provides a model for tubular structures, and devises an algorithm to automatically extract tubular anatomical structures from medical imagery. Our model fits ma...
Vandana Mohan, Ganesh Sundaramoorthi, Allen Tannen...
INFOCOM
2011
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
To preempt or not: Tackling bid and time-based cheating in online spectrum auctions
—Online spectrum auctions offer ample flexibility for bidders to request and obtain spectrum on-the-fly. Such flexibility, however, opens up new vulnerabilities to bidder mani...
Lara B. Deek, Xia Zhou, Kevin C. Almeroth, Haitao ...
ALGORITHMICA
2011
14 years 1 months ago
Algorithms for Marketing-Mix Optimization
Algorithms for determining quality/cost/price tradeoffs in saturated markets are consid-3 ered. A product is modeled by d real-valued qualities whose sum determines the unit cost ...
Joachim Gudmundsson, Pat Morin, Michiel H. M. Smid