Snowbird is a middleware system based on virtual machine (VM) technology that simplifies the development and deployment of bimodal applications. Such applications alternate betwee...
A ball graph is an intersection graph of a set of balls with arbitrary radii. Given a real number t > 1, we say that a subgraph G′ of a graph G is a t-spanner of G, if for eve...
It has been shown that a small number of FPGAs can significantly accelerate certain computing tasks by up to two or three orders of magnitude. However, particularly intensive lar...
Arun Patel, Christopher A. Madill, Manuel Salda&nt...
We consider the problem of wide-area large-scale text search over a peer-to-peer infrastructure. A wide-area search infrastructure with billions of documents and millions of searc...
Vijay Gopalakrishnan, Bobby Bhattacharjee, Peter J...
Clustering is ill-defined. Unlike supervised learning where labels lead to crisp performance criteria such as accuracy and squared error, clustering quality depends on how the cl...
Rich Caruana, Mohamed Farid Elhawary, Nam Nguyen, ...