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ESCIENCE
2006
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
Workflow-Driven Ontologies: An Earth Sciences Case Study
A goal of the Geosciences Network (GEON) is to develop cyber-infrastructure that will allow earth scientists to discover access, integrate and disseminate knowledge in distributed...
Leonardo Salayandia, Paulo Pinheiro da Silva, Ann ...
MM
2006
ACM
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14 years 2 months ago
Video search reranking via information bottleneck principle
We propose a novel and generic video/image reranking algorithm, IB reranking, which reorders results from text-only searches by discovering the salient visual patterns of relevant...
Winston H. Hsu, Lyndon S. Kennedy, Shih-Fu Chang
PPPJ
2006
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
Cost and benefit of rigorous decoupling with context-specific interfaces
In Java programs, classes are coupled to each other through the use of typed references. In order to minimize coupling without changing the executed code, interfaces can be introd...
Florian Forster
SIGCOMM
2006
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
Minimizing churn in distributed systems
A pervasive requirement of distributed systems is to deal with churn — change in the set of participating nodes due to joins, graceful leaves, and failures. A high churn rate ca...
Brighten Godfrey, Scott Shenker, Ion Stoica
ICSM
2005
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
A Safe Regression Test Selection Technique for Database-Driven Applications
Regression testing is a widely-used method for checking whether modifications to software systems have adversely affected the overall functionality. This is potentially an expens...
David Willmor, Suzanne M. Embury