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USENIX
1994
13 years 9 months ago
Experiences with a Survey Tool for Discovering Network Time Protocol Servers
The Network Time Protocol (NTP) is widely used to synchronize computer clocks throughout the Internet. Existing NTP clients and servers form a very large distributed system, and y...
James D. Guyton, Michael F. Schwartz
WSDM
2010
ACM
236views Data Mining» more  WSDM 2010»
14 years 5 months ago
Personalized Click Prediction in Sponsored Search
Sponsored search is a multi-billion dollar business that generates most of the revenue for search engines. Predicting the probability that users click on ads is crucial to sponsor...
Erick Cantú-Paz, Haibin Cheng
ATAL
2010
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
MAS-DisCoSim 4 PDP: a testbed for multi-agent solutions to PDPs
This demo illustrates MAS-DisCoSim 4 PDP, a testbed environment for evaluating distributed multi-agent system solutions to pickup and delivery problems (PDPs). PDPs are well-studi...
Jelle Van Gompel, Bart Tuts, Rutger Claes, Mario C...
MOBISYS
2008
ACM
14 years 7 months ago
Efficient channel-aware rate adaptation in dynamic environments
Increasingly, 802.11 devices are being used by mobile users. This results in very dynamic wireless channels that are difficult to use efficiently. Current rate selection algorithm...
Glenn Judd, Xiaohui Wang, Peter Steenkiste
ITICSE
2004
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
The backwash effect on SQL skills grading
This paper examines the effect of grading approaches for SQL query formulation on students’ learning strategies. The way that students are graded in a subject has a significant ...
Julia Coleman Prior, Raymond Lister