Virtually all histograms store for each bucket the number of distinct values it contains and their average frequency. In this paper, we question this paradigm. We start out by inv...
Mechanical Turk (MTurk) is an increasingly popular web service for paying people small rewards to do human computation tasks. Current uses of MTurk typically post independent para...
Greg Little, Lydia B. Chilton, Max Goldman, Robert...
As high-speed networks make it easier to use distributed resources, it becomes increasingly common that applications and their data are not colocated. Users have traditionally add...
Ian T. Foster, David Kohr, Rakesh Krishnaiyer, Jac...
— Fault-tolerance is an important system metric for many operating environments, from automotive to space exploration. The conventional technique for improving system reliability...
John Lach, William H. Mangione-Smith, Miodrag Potk...
Applications in computer networks often require high throughput access to large data structures for lookup and classification. While advanced algorithms exist to speed these search...