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CHI
2007
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Noticing notice: a large-scale experiment on the timing of software license agreements
Spyware is an increasing problem. Interestingly, many programs carrying spyware honestly disclose the activities of the software, but users install the software anyway. We report ...
Nathaniel Good, Jens Grossklags, Deirdre K. Mullig...
HPCA
2001
IEEE
14 years 8 months ago
Self-Tuned Congestion Control for Multiprocessor Networks
Network performance in tightly-coupled multiprocessors typically degrades rapidly beyond network saturation. Consequently, designers must keep a network below its saturation point...
Mithuna Thottethodi, Alvin R. Lebeck, Shubhendu S....
SIGMOD
2009
ACM
213views Database» more  SIGMOD 2009»
14 years 8 months ago
Dictionary-based order-preserving string compression for main memory column stores
Column-oriented database systems [19, 23] perform better than traditional row-oriented database systems on analytical workloads such as those found in decision support and busines...
Carsten Binnig, Stefan Hildenbrand, Franz Fär...
WWW
2010
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
Not so creepy crawler: easy crawler generation with standard xml queries
Web crawlers are increasingly used for focused tasks such as the extraction of data from Wikipedia or the analysis of social networks like last.fm. In these cases, pages are far m...
Franziska von dem Bussche, Klara A. Weiand, Benedi...
WSDM
2009
ACM
161views Data Mining» more  WSDM 2009»
14 years 2 months ago
Predicting the readability of short web summaries
Readability is a crucial presentation attribute that web summarization algorithms consider while generating a querybaised web summary. Readability quality also forms an important ...
Tapas Kanungo, David Orr