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WWW
2009
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
What's up CAPTCHA?: a CAPTCHA based on image orientation
We present a new CAPTCHA which is based on identifying an image's upright orientation. This task requires analysis of the often complex contents of an image, a task which hum...
Rich Gossweiler, Maryam Kamvar, Shumeet Baluja
VLDB
1997
ACM
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14 years 2 days ago
An Efficient Cost-Driven Index Selection Tool for Microsoft SQL Server
In this paper we describe novel techniques that make it possible to build an industrial-strength tool for automating the choice of indexes in the physical design of a SQL database...
Surajit Chaudhuri, Vivek R. Narasayya
CCGRID
2010
IEEE
13 years 9 months ago
The Failure Trace Archive: Enabling Comparative Analysis of Failures in Diverse Distributed Systems
With the increasing functionality and complexity of distributed systems, resource failures are inevitable. While numerous models and algorithms for dealing with failures exist, th...
Derrick Kondo, Bahman Javadi, Alexandru Iosup, Dic...
CI
2004
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13 years 7 months ago
Solution Generation with Qualitative Models of Preferences
We consider automated decision aids that help users select the best solution from a large set of options. For such tools to successfully accomplish their task, eliciting and repre...
Boi Faltings, Marc Torrens, Pearl Pu
DAC
2000
ACM
14 years 9 months ago
Code compression for low power embedded system design
erse approaches at all levels of abstraction starting from the physical level up to the system level. Experience shows that a highlevel method may have a larger impact since the de...
Haris Lekatsas, Jörg Henkel, Wayne Wolf