Strict consistency of replicated data is infeasible or not required by many distributed applications, so current systems often permit stale replication, in which cached copies of ...
—In this paper we consider the Airspace Sectorization Problem (ASP) where airspace has to be partitioned into a number of sectors, each sector being assigned to a team of air tra...
The energy usage of computer systems is becoming more important, especially for battery operated systems. Displays, disks, and cpus, in that order, use the most energy. Reducing t...
Mark Weiser, Brent B. Welch, Alan J. Demers, Scott...
Background: Text mining has become a useful tool for biologists trying to understand the genetics of diseases. In particular, it can help identify the most interesting candidate g...
We initiate the study of an interesting aspect of sponsored search advertising, namely the consequences of broad match- a feature where an ad of an advertiser can be mapped to a b...