BitTorrent is today's most influential peer-to-peer system. Currently BitTorrent has two very different operating models: (1) public trackers, and (2) private trackers (also k...
Previous research has motivated the idea of automatically determining when programmers are having difficulty, provided an initial algorithm (unimplemented in an actual system), an...
Belief propagation is widely used in inference of graphical models. It yields exact solutions when the underlying graph is singly connected. When the graph contains loops, double-c...
Reducing circuit's peak current plays an important role in circuit reliability in deep sub-micron era. For sequential circuits, it is observed that the peak current has a str...
Consider a typical recommendation problem. A company has historical records of products sold to a large customer base. These records may be compactly represented as a sparse custom...