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CIKM
2011
Springer
12 years 7 months ago
Personalizing web search results by reading level
Traditionally, search engines have ignored the reading difficulty of documents and the reading proficiency of users in computing a document ranking. This is one reason why Web se...
Kevyn Collins-Thompson, Paul N. Bennett, Ryen W. W...
CORR
2012
Springer
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12 years 3 months ago
Faster Approximate Distance Queries and Compact Routing in Sparse Graphs
A distance oracle is a compact representation of the shortest distance matrix of a graph. It can be queried to retrieve approximate distances and corresponding paths between any p...
Rachit Agarwal, Brighten Godfrey, Sariel Har-Peled
ISSTA
2012
ACM
11 years 9 months ago
Residual investigation: predictive and precise bug detection
We introduce the concept of “residual investigation” for program analysis. A residual investigation is a dynamic check installed as a result of running a static analysis that ...
Kaituo Li, Christoph Reichenbach, Christoph Csalln...
RECOMB
2012
Springer
11 years 9 months ago
Recovering the Tree-Like Trend of Evolution Despite Extensive Lateral Genetic Transfer: A Probabilistic Analysis
Abstract. Lateral gene transfer (LGT) is a common mechanism of nonvertical evolution where genetic material is transferred between two more or less distantly related organisms. It ...
Sebastien Roch, Sagi Snir
EUROSYS
2007
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
hFS: a hybrid file system prototype for improving small file and metadata performance
Two oft-cited file systems, the Fast File System (FFS) and the Log-Structured File System (LFS), adopt two sharply different update strategies—update-in-place and update-out-of-...
Zhihui Zhang, Kanad Ghose