When selecting alternatives from large amounts of data, trade-offs play a vital role in everyday decision making. In databases this is primarily reflected by the top-k retrieval p...
We consider the classical finite-state discounted Markovian decision problem, and we introduce a new policy iteration-like algorithm for finding the optimal state costs or Q-facto...
Powerful SIMD instructions in modern processors offer an opportunity for greater search performance. In this paper, we apply these instructions to decoding search engine posting ...
Alexander A. Stepanov, Anil R. Gangolli, Daniel E....
We present a practical and general-purpose approach to large and complex visual data analysis where visualization processing, rendering and subsequent human interpretation is cons...
Kurt Stockinger, John Shalf, Kesheng Wu, E. Wes Be...
Social network services have become a viable source of information for users. In Twitter, information deemed important by the community propagates through retweets. Studying the c...