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INFOCOM
2002
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
Improving the Performance of Interactive TCP Applications using Service Differentiation
Abstract—Interactive TCP applications, such as Telnet and the Web, are particularly sensitive to network congestion. Indeed, congestion-induced queuing and packet loss can be a s...
Waël Noureddine, Fouad A. Tobagi
DL
1999
Springer
121views Digital Library» more  DL 1999»
14 years 2 months ago
Does Zooming Improve Image Browsing?
We describe an image retrieval system we built based on a Zoomable User Interface (ZUI). We also discuss the design, results and analysis of a controlled experiment we performed o...
Tammara T. A. Combs, Benjamin B. Bederson
PLDI
1998
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
Improving Performance by Branch Reordering
The conditional branch has long been considered an expensive operation. The relative cost of conditional branches has increased as recently designed machines are now relying on de...
Minghui Yang, Gang-Ryung Uh, David B. Whalley
SIGMOD
1996
ACM
109views Database» more  SIGMOD 1996»
14 years 2 months ago
Improved Histograms for Selectivity Estimation of Range Predicates
Many commercial database systems maintain histograms to summarize the contents of relations and permit efficient estimation of query result sizes and access plan costs. Although s...
Viswanath Poosala, Yannis E. Ioannidis, Peter J. H...
ICPR
2010
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
Improving Undersampled MRI Reconstruction Using Non-Local Means
Obtaining high quality images in MR is desirable not only for accurate visual assessment but also for automatic processing to extract clinically relevant parameters. Filtering-bas...
Ganesh Adluru, Tolga Tasdizen, Ross Whitaker, Edwa...