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SIGMOD
2010
ACM
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14 years 1 months ago
ParaTimer: a progress indicator for MapReduce DAGs
Time-oriented progress estimation for parallel queries is a challenging problem that has received only limited attention. In this paper, we present ParaTimer, a new type of timere...
Kristi Morton, Magdalena Balazinska, Dan Grossman
ICAIL
2003
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
Induction of Defeasible Logic Theories in the Legal Domain
Defeasible Logic is a promising representation for legal knowledge that appears to overcome many of the deficiencies of previous approaches to representing legal knowledge. Unfor...
Benjamin Johnston, Guido Governatori
MASCOTS
2008
13 years 10 months ago
Finding Good Configurations in High-Dimensional Spaces: Doing More with Less
Manually tuning tens to hundreds of configuration parameters in a complex software system like a database or an application server is an arduous task. Recent work has looked into ...
Risi Thonangi, Vamsidhar Thummala, Shivnath Babu
ASPLOS
1992
ACM
14 years 24 days ago
Application-Controlled Physical Memory using External Page-Cache Management
Next generation computer systems will have gigabytes of physical memory and processors in the 200 MIPS range or higher. While this trend suggests that memory management for most p...
Kieran Harty, David R. Cheriton
VLDB
2008
ACM
147views Database» more  VLDB 2008»
14 years 9 months ago
PicShark: mitigating metadata scarcity through large-scale P2P collaboration
With the commoditization of digital devices, personal information and media sharing is becoming a key application on the pervasive Web. In such a context, data annotation rather th...
Philippe Cudré-Mauroux, Adriana Budura, Manfred H...