Video-on-demand (VoD) is increasingly popular with internet users. However, VoD is costly due to the load placed on video servers. Peer-to-peer (P2P) techniques are an approach to...
Bin Cheng, Xiuzheng Liu, Zheng Zhang, Hai Jin, Lex...
In cluster-based storage systems, the metadata server cluster must be able to adaptively distribute responsibility for metadata to maintain high system performance and long-term l...
We study a general online convex optimization problem. We have a convex set S and an unknown sequence of cost functions c1, c2, . . . , and in each period, we choose a feasible po...
Abraham Flaxman, Adam Tauman Kalai, H. Brendan McM...
Abstract. A set of phylogenetic trees with overlapping leaf sets is consistent if it can be merged without conflicts into a supertree. In this paper, we study the polynomial-time a...
The problem of selecting a subset of relevant features in a potentially overwhelming quantity of data is classic and found in many branches of science. Examples in computer vision...