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DSN
2008
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
Scheduling for performance and availability in systems with temporal dependent workloads
Temporal locality in workloads creates conditions in which a server, in order to remain available, should quickly process bursts of requests with large service requirements. In th...
Ningfang Mi, Giuliano Casale, Evgenia Smirni
ICDE
2007
IEEE
219views Database» more  ICDE 2007»
14 years 9 months ago
Efficient Keyword Search Across Heterogeneous Relational Databases
Keyword search is a familiar and potentially effective way to find information of interest that is "locked" inside relational databases. Current work has generally assum...
Mayssam Sayyadian, Hieu LeKhac, AnHai Doan, Luis G...
SODA
2010
ACM
202views Algorithms» more  SODA 2010»
14 years 5 months ago
Counting Inversions, Offline Orthogonal Range Counting, and Related Problems
We give an O(n lg n)-time algorithm for counting the number of inversions in a permutation on n elements. This improves a long-standing previous bound of O(n lg n/ lg lg n) that ...
Timothy M. Chan, Mihai Patrascu
FOCS
2008
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
Two Query PCP with Sub-Constant Error
We show that the NP-Complete language 3SAT has a PCP verifier that makes two queries to a proof of almost-linear size and achieves sub-constant probability of error o(1). The ver...
Dana Moshkovitz, Ran Raz
ASSETS
2008
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
A user evaluation of the SADIe transcoder
The World Wide Web (Web) is a visually complex, dynamic, multimedia system that can be inaccessible to people with visual impairments. SADIe addresses this problem by using Semant...
Darren Lunn, Sean Bechhofer, Simon Harper