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MM
2004
ACM
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14 years 1 months ago
Intuitive and effective interfaces for WWW image search engines
Web image search engine has become an important tool to organize digital images on the Web. However, most commercial search engines still use a list presentation while little effo...
Zhiwei Li, Xing Xie, Hao Liu, Xiaoou Tang, Mingjin...
ITRUST
2005
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
Alleviating the Sparsity Problem of Collaborative Filtering Using Trust Inferences
Collaborative Filtering (CF), the prevalent recommendation approach, has been successfully used to identify users that can be characterized as “similar” according to their logg...
Manos Papagelis, Dimitris Plexousakis, Themistokli...
NSDI
2010
13 years 9 months ago
MapReduce Online
MapReduce is a popular framework for data-intensive distributed computing of batch jobs. To simplify fault tolerance, many implementations of MapReduce materialize the entire outp...
Tyson Condie, Neil Conway, Peter Alvaro, Joseph M....
CONCURRENCY
2007
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13 years 7 months ago
Fostering collaboration to better manage water resources
: Good water management is literally vital for the arid and semi-arid regions of the planet. Yet good water management requires multidisciplinary expertise, since one must consider...
William Voorsluys, Eliane Araújo, Walfredo ...
CAE
2010
13 years 2 months ago
Realtime Aesthetic Image Retargeting
Humans have always sought to achieve aesthetics in art. In this paper, we present a novel approach for retargeting images to different aspect ratios while improving the compositio...
Ligang Liu, Yong Jin, Qingbiao Wu