Autonomous agents that learn about their environment can be divided into two broad classes. One class of existing learners, reinforcement learners, typically employ weak learning ...
Multicast routing enables e cient data distribution to multiple recipients. However, existing work has concentrated on extending single-domain techniques to wide-area networks, ra...
Satish Kumar, Pavlin Radoslavov, David Thaler, Cen...
Most queries in web search are ambiguous and multifaceted. Identifying the major senses and facets of queries from search log data, referred to as query subtopic mining in this pa...
Yunhua Hu, Ya-nan Qian, Hang Li, Daxin Jiang, Jian...
Background: In a time-course microarray experiment, the expression level for each gene is observed across a number of time-points in order to characterize the temporal trajectorie...
Insuk Sohn, Kouros Owzar, Stephen L. George, Sujon...
We present Schism, a novel workload-aware approach for database partitioning and replication designed to improve scalability of sharednothing distributed databases. Because distri...
Carlo Curino, Yang Zhang, Evan P. C. Jones, Samuel...