The migration from desktop applications to Web-based services is scattering personal data across a myriad of Web sites, such as Google, Flickr, YouTube, and Amazon S3. This disper...
Roxana Geambasu, Cherie Cheung, Alexander Moshchuk...
Learning to rank is a new statistical learning technology on creating a ranking model for sorting objects. The technology has been successfully applied to web search, and is becom...
Tao Qin, Tie-Yan Liu, Xu-Dong Zhang, De-Sheng Wang...
This paper introduces a new way to provide strong atomicity in an implementation of transactional memory. Strong atomicity lets us offer clear semantics to programs, even if they ...
The movement to multi-core processors increases the need for simpler, more robust parallel programming models. Atomic sections have been widely recognized for their ease of use. T...
Bill McCloskey, Feng Zhou, David Gay, Eric A. Brew...
The erasure resilience of rateless codes, such as Luby-Transform (LT) codes, makes them particularly suitable to a wide variety of loss-prone wireless and sensor network applicati...
Andrew Hagedorn, Sachin Agarwal, David Starobinski...