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PPOPP
2009
ACM
14 years 9 months ago
Detecting and tolerating asymmetric races
Because data races represent a hard-to-manage class of errors in concurrent programs, numerous approaches to detect them have been proposed and evaluated. We specifically consider...
Paruj Ratanaworabhan, Martin Burtscher, Darko Kiro...
CHI
2006
ACM
14 years 9 months ago
Error correction of voicemail transcripts in SCANMail
Despite its widespread use, voicemail presents numerous usability challenges: People must listen to messages in their entirety, they cannot search by keywords, and audio files do ...
Moira Burke, Brian Amento, Philip L. Isenhour
HPCA
2004
IEEE
14 years 9 months ago
Out-of-Order Commit Processors
Modern out-of-order processors tolerate long latency memory operations by supporting a large number of inflight instructions. This is particularly useful in numerical applications...
Adrián Cristal, Daniel Ortega, Josep Llosa,...
STOC
2005
ACM
130views Algorithms» more  STOC 2005»
14 years 9 months ago
Low-distortion embeddings of general metrics into the line
A low-distortion embedding between two metric spaces is a mapping which preserves the distances between each pair of points, up to a small factor called distortion. Low-distortion...
Mihai Badoiu, Julia Chuzhoy, Piotr Indyk, Anastasi...
SIGMOD
2009
ACM
137views Database» more  SIGMOD 2009»
14 years 9 months ago
Robust and efficient algorithms for rank join evaluation
In the rank join problem we are given a relational join R1 1 R2 and a function that assigns numeric scores to the join tuples, and the goal is to return the tuples with the highes...
Jonathan Finger, Neoklis Polyzotis