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AIPS
2008
13 years 10 months ago
2008
This paper addresses the problem of deciding effectively whether to interrupt a teammate who may have information that is valuable for solving a collaborative scheduling problem. ...
FOCS
2002
IEEE
14 years 15 days ago
2002
IEEE
We present the first constant-factor approximation algorithm for network design with multiple commodities and economies of scale. We consider the rent-or-buy problem, a type of m...
CLUSTER
2003
IEEE
14 years 25 days ago
2003
IEEE
Debugging the performance of parallel and distributed systems remains a difficult task despite the widespread use of middleware packages for automatic distribution, communication...
OSDI
2008
ACM
14 years 7 months ago
2008
ACM
The increasing use of computers for saving valuable data imposes stringent reliability constraints on storage systems. Reliability improvement via use of redundancy is a common pr...
EMNLP
2007
13 years 9 months ago
2007
We show for the first time that incorporating the predictions of a word sense disambiguation system within a typical phrase-based statistical machine translation (SMT) model cons...