Nearest neighbor queries are important in many settings, including spatial databases (Find the k closest cities) and multimedia databases (Find the k most similar images). Previou...
This paper argues for an implicitly parallel programming model for many-core microprocessors, and provides initial technical approaches towards this goal. In an implicitly paralle...
Wen-mei W. Hwu, Shane Ryoo, Sain-Zee Ueng, John H....
Program specifications are important for many tasks during software design, development, and maintenance. Among these, temporal specifications are particularly useful. They expres...
Asynchronous systems components are hard to write, hard to reason about, and (not coincidentally) hard to mechanically verify. In order to achieve high performance, asynchronous c...
Prakash Chandrasekaran, Christopher L. Conway, Jos...
Ad auctions in sponsored search support"broad match"that allows an advertiser to target a large number of queries while bidding only on a limited number. While giving mo...
Eyal Even-Dar, Vahab S. Mirrokni, S. Muthukrishnan...