Clustering is an important problem and has numerous applications. In this paper we consider an important clustering problem, called the k-center problem. We are given a discrete p...
Multi-document summarization aims to create a compressed summary while retaining the main characteristics of the original set of documents. Many approaches use statistics and mach...
Dingding Wang, Tao Li, Shenghuo Zhu, Chris H. Q. D...
A re-ranking technique,called “PageRank brings a successful story behind the search engine. Many studies focus on finding an way to compute the PageRank scores of a large web gr...
We present preliminary results of a project to create a tuning system that adaptively optimizes programs to the underlying execution platform. We will show initial results from tw...
We study several transparent techniques for scaling dynamic content web sites, and we evaluate their relative impact when used in combination. Full transparency implies strong dat...