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SIGMOD
2012
ACM
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11 years 10 months ago
Skew-aware automatic database partitioning in shared-nothing, parallel OLTP systems
The advent of affordable, shared-nothing computing systems portends a new class of parallel database management systems (DBMS) for on-line transaction processing (OLTP) applicatio...
Andrew Pavlo, Carlo Curino, Stanley B. Zdonik
HT
2010
ACM
14 years 18 days ago
Parallel browsing behavior on the web
Parallel browsing describes a behavior where users visit Web pages in multiple concurrent threads. Web browsers explicitly support this by providing tabs. Although parallel browsi...
Jeff Huang, Ryen W. White
SIGMOD
2009
ACM
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14 years 7 months ago
Augmented social cognition: using social web technology to enhance the ability of groups to remember, think, and reason
We are experiencing a new Social Web, where people share, communicate, commiserate, and conflict with each other. As evidenced by systems like Wikipedia, twitter, and delicious.co...
Ed H. Chi
ICDCS
1995
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Specifying Weak Sets
nt formal speci cations of a new abstraction, weak sets, which can be used to alleviate high latencies when retrieving data from a wide-area information system like the World Wide...
Jeannette M. Wing, David C. Steere
JSA
2006
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13 years 7 months ago
Dynamic feature selection for hardware prediction
It is often possible to greatly improve the performance of a hardware system via the use of predictive (speculative) techniques. For example, the performance of out-of-order micro...
Alan Fern, Robert Givan, Babak Falsafi, T. N. Vija...