Micro-task platforms provide massively parallel, ondemand labor. However, it can be difficult to reliably achieve high-quality work because online workers may behave irresponsibly...
Steven Dow, Anand Pramod Kulkarni, Scott R. Klemme...
Asthma is a leading chronic disease of children and currently affects about 6.2 million (8.5%) children in the United States. National Asthma Education and Prevention Program (NAE...
The advent of affordable, shared-nothing computing systems portends a new class of parallel database management systems (DBMS) for on-line transaction processing (OLTP) applicatio...
—Power optimization has become a key challenge in the design of large-scale enterprise data centers. Existing research efforts focus mainly on computer servers to lower their ene...
We give a constant factor approximation algorithm for the following generalization of the k-median problem. We are given a set of clients and facilities in a metric space. Each fa...