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ICDCS
1999
IEEE
14 years 17 hour ago
Imprecise Calendars: an Approach to Scheduling Computational Grids
We describe imprecise calendars, a way to organize and schedule clusters of nodes in a computation grid. Imprecise calendars permit the easy and efficient sharing of resources bet...
Jeffrey K. Hollingsworth, Songrit Maneewongvatana
ITICSE
2003
ACM
14 years 29 days ago
A media computation course for non-majors
Computing may well become considered an essential part of a liberal education, but introductory programming courses will not look like the way that they do today. Current CS1 cour...
Mark Guzdial
ICCS
2009
Springer
14 years 10 days ago
Interactive Control over a Programmable Computer Network Using a Multi-touch Surface
This article introduces the Interactive Network concept and describes the design and implementation of the first prototype. In an Interactive Network humans become an integral par...
Rudolf J. Strijkers, Laurence Muller, Mihai Criste...
CIKM
2004
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
Approximating the top-m passages in a parallel question answering system
We examine the problem of retrieving the top-m ranked items from a large collection, randomly distributed across an n-node system. In order to retrieve the top m overall, we must ...
Charles L. A. Clarke, Egidio L. Terra
CORR
2000
Springer
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13 years 7 months ago
How to Evaluate your Question Answering System Every Day and Still Get Real Work Done
In this paper, we report on Qaviar, an experimental automated evaluation system for question answering applications. The goal of our research was to find an automatically calculat...
Eric Breck, John D. Burger, Lisa Ferro, Lynette Hi...