Sciweavers

3255 search results - page 148 / 651
» Combination of Abstractions in the ASTR
Sort
View
IR
2010
13 years 8 months ago
Adapting boosting for information retrieval measures
Abstract We present a new ranking algorithm that combines the strengths of two previous methods: boosted tree classification, and LambdaRank, which has been shown to be empiricall...
Qiang Wu, Christopher J. C. Burges, Krysta Marie S...
P2P
2010
IEEE
150views Communications» more  P2P 2010»
13 years 8 months ago
Spotify -- Large Scale, Low Latency, P2P Music-on-Demand Streaming
Abstract—Spotify is a music streaming service offering lowlatency access to a library of over 8 million music tracks. Streaming is performed by a combination of client-server acc...
Gunnar Kreitz, Fredrik Niemelä
PERCOM
2010
ACM
13 years 8 months ago
Collaborative municipal Wi-Fi networks - challenges and opportunities
Abstract—Municipal Wi-Fi networks aim at providing Internet access and selected mobile network services to citizens, travelers, and civil servants. The goals of these networks ar...
Tobias Heer, René Hummen, Nicolai Viol, Han...
SSS
2010
Springer
103views Control Systems» more  SSS 2010»
13 years 8 months ago
A Provably Starvation-Free Distributed Directory Protocol
Abstract. This paper presents Combine, a distributed directory protocol for shared objects, designed for large-scale distributed systems. Directory protocols support move requests,...
Hagit Attiya, Vincent Gramoli, Alessia Milani
WDAG
2010
Springer
230views Algorithms» more  WDAG 2010»
13 years 8 months ago
Implementing Fault-Tolerant Services Using State Machines: Beyond Replication
Abstract—This paper describes a method to implement faulttolerant services in distributed systems based on the idea of fused state machines. The theory of fused state machines us...
Vijay K. Garg