External sorting--the process of sorting a file that is too large to fit into the computer's internal memory and must be stored externally on disks--is a fundamental subroutin...
The presence of Web spam in query results is one of the critical challenges facing search engines today. While search engines try to combat the impact of spam pages on their resul...
level of abstraction, compared with the program representation for scalar optimizations. For example, loop unrolling and loop unrolland-jam transformations exploit the large regist...
Rakesh Krishnaiyer, Dattatraya Kulkarni, Daniel M....
The demand for high performance has driven acyclic computation accelerators into extensive use in modern embedded and desktop architectures. Accelerators that are ideal from a sof...
We analyze the problem of designing a truthful pay-per-click auction where the click-through-rates (CTR) of the bidders are unknown to the auction. Such an auction faces the class...