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IPPS
2006
IEEE
16 years 6 days ago
Dynamic resource allocation of computer clusters with probabilistic workloads
Real-time resource scheduling is an important factor for improving the performance of cluster computing. In many distributed and parallel processing systems, particularly real-tim...
Marwan S. Sleiman, Lester Lipsky, Robert Sheahan
IROS
2006
IEEE
168views Robotics» more  IROS 2006»
16 years 6 days ago
Scanning the Environment with Two Independent Cameras - Biologically Motivated Approach
— In this paper we present a novel method for visual scanning and target tracking by means of independent pan-tilt cameras which mimic the chameleon visual system. We present a s...
Ofir Avni, Francesco Borrelli, Gadi Katzir, Ehud R...
ASSETS
2006
ACM
16 years 5 days ago
From letters to words: efficient stroke-based word completion for trackball text entry
We present a major extension to our previous work on Trackball EdgeWrite—a unistroke text entry method for trackballs—by taking it from a character-level technique to a word-l...
Jacob O. Wobbrock, Brad A. Myers
SIGIR
2006
ACM
16 years 4 days ago
Statistical precision of information retrieval evaluation
We introduce and validate bootstrap techniques to compute confidence intervals that quantify the effect of test-collection variability on average precision (AP) and mean average...
Gordon V. Cormack, Thomas R. Lynam
ERCIMDL
2005
Springer
124views Education» more  ERCIMDL 2005»
15 years 11 months ago
A Comparison of On-Line Computer Science Citation Databases
This paper examines the difference and similarities between the two on-line computer science citation databases DBLP and CiteSeer. The database entries in DBLP are inserted manual...
Vaclav Petricek, Ingemar J. Cox, Hui Han, Isaac G....