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WWW
2011
ACM
14 years 6 months ago
Network bucket testing
Bucket testing, also known as A/B testing, is a practice that is widely used by on-line sites with large audiences: in a simple version of the methodology, one evaluates a new fea...
Lars Backstrom, Jon M. Kleinberg
ICDCS
1998
IEEE
15 years 4 months ago
Improved Lightpath (Wavelength) Routing in Large WDM Networks
We address the problem of efficient circuit switching in wide area networks. The solution provided is based on finding optimal routes for lightpaths and semilightpaths. A lightpat...
Weifa Liang, George Havas, Xiaojun Shen
ICADL
2003
Springer
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15 years 5 months ago
Approximating Fair Use in LicenseScript
Current rights management systems are not able to enforce copyright laws because of both legal and technological reasons. The contract rights granted by a copyright owner are often...
Cheun Ngen Chong, Sandro Etalle, Pieter H. Hartel,...
WWW
2009
ACM
16 years 13 days ago
Using graphics processors for high performance IR query processing
Web search engines are facing formidable performance challenges as they need to process thousands of queries per second over billions of documents. To deal with this heavy workloa...
Shuai Ding, Jinru He, Hao Yan, Torsten Suel
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WWW
2007
ACM
16 years 13 days ago
Compare&contrast: using the web to discover comparable cases for news stories
Comparing and contrasting is an important strategy people employ to understand new situations and create solutions for new problems. Similar events can provide hints for problem s...
Jiahui Liu, Earl Wagner, Larry Birnbaum