The principle of maximum entropy provides a powerful framework for statistical models of joint, conditional, and marginal distributions. However, there are many important distribu...
In meeting the challenges that resulted from the explosion of collected, stored, and transferred data, Knowledge Discovery in Databases or Data Mining has emerged as a new research...
One of the major productivity hurdles for parallel programming is non-determinism -- a parallel program may yield different results on different executions with the same input, dep...
We propose a novel method to measure the dependability of journaling file systems. In our approach, we build models of how journaling file systems must behave under different jo...
Vijayan Prabhakaran, Andrea C. Arpaci-Dusseau, Rem...
The approximation of surfaces to scattered data is an important problem encountered in a variety of scientific applications, such as reverse engineering, computer vision, computer...