We present a question answering (QA) system which learns how to detect and rank answer passages by analyzing questions and their answers (QA pairs) provided as training data. We b...
With the proliferation of the computer Cloud, new software delivery methods were created. In order to build software to fit into one of these models, a scalable, easy to deploy st...
Large, socially-driven Web 2.0 sites such as Facebook and Youtube have seen significant growth in popularity [5, 10]. However, strong demand also exists for socially-driven web s...
Frank Uyeda, Diwaker Gupta, Amin Vahdat, George Va...
Energy is increasingly a first-order concern in computer systems. Exploiting energy-accuracy trade-offs is an attractive choice in applications that can tolerate inaccuracies. Re...
Adrian Sampson, Werner Dietl, Emily Fortuna, Danus...
The huge success of eBay has proven the demand for customer-to-customer (C2C) electronic commerce. eBay is a centralized infrastructure with all its scalability problems (network ...