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ECIR
2009
Springer
16 years 3 months ago
Mean-Variance Analysis: A New Document Ranking Theory in Information Retrieval
Abstract. This paper concerns document ranking in information retrieval. In information retrieval systems, the widely accepted probability ranking principle (PRP) suggests that, fo...
Jun Wang
EUROSYS
2007
ACM
16 years 3 months ago
Tashkent+: memory-aware load balancing and update filtering in replicated databases
We present a memory-aware load balancing (MALB) technique to dispatch transactions to replicas in a replicated database. Our MALB algorithm exploits knowledge of the working sets ...
Sameh Elnikety, Steven G. Dropsho, Willy Zwaenepoe...
EUROGRAPHICS
2010
Eurographics
16 years 3 months ago
Improved Variational Guiding of Smoke Animations
Smoke animations are hard to art-direct because simple changes in parameters such as simulation resolution often lead to unpredictable changes in the final result. Previous work ...
Michael B. Nielsen and Brian B. Christensen
SOSP
2005
ACM
16 years 2 months ago
Hibernator: helping disk arrays sleep through the winter
Energy consumption has become an important issue in high-end data centers, and disk arrays are one of the largest energy consumers within them. Although several attempts have been...
Qingbo Zhu, Zhifeng Chen, Lin Tan, Yuanyuan Zhou, ...
CHI
2010
ACM
16 years 25 days ago
Now let me see where i was: understanding how lifelogs mediate memory
Lifelogging technologies can capture both mundane and important experiences in our daily lives, resulting in a rich record of the places we visit and the things we see. This study...
Vaiva Kalnikaité, Abigail Sellen, Steve Whi...