We consider the problem of revenue maximization in online auctions, that is, auctions in which bids are received and dealt with one-by-one. In this note, we demonstrate that resul...
This paper presents Carnegie Mellon University’s experiments on the mixed named-page and homepage finding task of the TREC 12 Web Track. Our results were strong; we achieved the...
We present the design and implementation of PLACE, a gray-box library for controlling file layout on top of FFSlike file systems. PLACE exploits its knowledge of FFS layout poli...
James A. Nugent, Andrea C. Arpaci-Dusseau, Remzi H...
This paper presents a new asynchronous programming library (libasync-smp) that allows event-driven applications to take advantage of multiprocessors by running code for event hand...
Nickolai Zeldovich, Alexander Yip, Frank Dabek, Ro...
We show how to extract a contour line (or isosurface) from quadratic elements—specifically from quadratic triangles and tetrahedra. We also devise how to transform the resultin...
David F. Wiley, Henry R. Childs, Benjamin F. Grego...