Several recent studies have found only a weak relationship between the performance of a retrieval system and the "success" achievable by human searchers. We hypothesize ...
A system's constraints characterizes what that system can do. However, a dynamic environment may require that a system alter its constraints. If feedback about a specific situ...
This paper1 deals with monitoring user perception of multimedia presentations in a Universal Multimedia Access (UMA) enabled system using objective no-reference (NR) metrics. Thes...
R. Venkatesh Babu, Andrew Perkis, Odd Inge Hillest...
This paper introduces a transparent self-configuring architecture for automatic scaling with temperature awareness in the database tier of a dynamic content web server. We use a ...
Saeed Ghanbari, Gokul Soundararajan, Jin Chen, Cri...
As evidenced by the popularity of MPI (Message Passing Interface), message passing is an effective programming technique for managing coarse-grained concurrency on distributed com...