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SIGMOD
2004
ACM
150views Database» more  SIGMOD 2004»
14 years 10 months ago
When one Sample is not Enough: Improving Text Database Selection Using Shrinkage
Database selection is an important step when searching over large numbers of distributed text databases. The database selection task relies on statistical summaries of the databas...
Panagiotis G. Ipeirotis, Luis Gravano
ICSE
2007
IEEE-ACM
14 years 10 months ago
Feedback-Directed Random Test Generation
We present a technique that improves random test generation by incorporating feedback obtained from executing test inputs as they are created. Our technique builds inputs incremen...
Carlos Pacheco, Shuvendu K. Lahiri, Michael D. Ern...
MOBISYS
2004
ACM
14 years 9 months ago
Improving the Latency of 802.11 hand-offs using Neighbor Graphs
The 802.11 IEEE Standard has enabled low cost and effective wireless LAN services (WLAN). With the sales and deployment of WLAN based networks exploding, many people believe that ...
Minho Shin, Arunesh Mishra, William A. Arbaugh
PPOPP
2010
ACM
14 years 7 months ago
NOrec: streamlining STM by abolishing ownership records
Drawing inspiration from several previous projects, we present an ownership-record-free software transactional memory (STM) system that combines extremely low overhead with unusua...
Luke Dalessandro, Michael F. Spear, Michael L. Sco...
ICCAD
2008
IEEE
170views Hardware» more  ICCAD 2008»
14 years 6 months ago
Obstacle-avoiding rectilinear Steiner tree construction
— In today’s VLSI designs, there can be many blockages in a routing region. The obstacle-avoiding rectilinear Steiner minimum tree (OARSMT) problem has become an important prob...
Liang Li, Evangeline F. Y. Young