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SIGMOD
2010
ACM
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Analyzing the energy efficiency of a database server
Rising energy costs in large data centers are driving an agenda for energy-efficient computing. In this paper, we focus on the role of database software in affecting, and, ultimat...
Dimitris Tsirogiannis, Stavros Harizopoulos, Mehul...
ARTMED
2008
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13 years 8 months ago
Drinking from the firehose of experience
The problem of consciousness has captured the imagination of philosophers, neuroscientists, and the general public, but has received little attention within AI. However, concepts ...
Benjamin Kuipers
CORR
2010
Springer
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13 years 8 months ago
A New Phase Transition for Local Delays in MANETs
: We study a slotted version of the Aloha Medium Access (MAC) protocol in a Mobile Ad-hoc Network (MANET). Our model features transmitters randomly located in the Euclidean plane, ...
François Baccelli, Bartek Blaszczyszyn
CORR
2008
Springer
93views Education» more  CORR 2008»
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The end of Sleeping Beauty's nightmare
The way a rational agent changes her belief in certain proposition/hypotheses in the light of new evidence lies in the heart of Bayesian inference. The basic natural assumption, a...
Berry Groisman
SYNTHESE
2008
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Persons, animals, and identity
The paper is concerned with how neo-Lockean accounts of personal identity should respond to the challenge of animalist accounts. Neo-Lockean accounts that hold that persons can cha...
Sydney Shoemaker