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2011
Tsinghua U.
12 years 11 months ago
Hystor: making the best use of solid state drives in high performance storage systems
With the fast technical improvement, flash memory based Solid State Drives (SSDs) are becoming an important part of the computer storage hierarchy to significantly improve perfo...
Feng Chen, David A. Koufaty, Xiaodong Zhang
DAC
2011
ACM
12 years 7 months ago
Understanding the impact of power loss on flash memory
Flash memory is quickly becoming a common component in computer systems ranging from music players to mission-critical server systems. As flash plays a more important role, data ...
Hung-Wei Tseng, Laura M. Grupp, Steven Swanson
CORR
2012
Springer
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12 years 3 months ago
On the Hardness of Welfare Maximization in Combinatorial Auctions with Submodular Valuations
We present a new type of monotone submodular functions: multi-peak submodular functions. Roughly speaking, given a family of sets F, we construct a monotone submodular function f ...
Shahar Dobzinski, Jan Vondrák
VMCAI
2012
Springer
12 years 3 months ago
Ideal Abstractions for Well-Structured Transition Systems
stractions for Well-Structured Transition Systems Damien Zufferey1 , Thomas Wies2 , and Thomas A. Henzinger1 1 IST Austria 2 New York University Many infinite state systems can be...
Damien Zufferey, Thomas Wies, Thomas A. Henzinger
RECOMB
2012
Springer
11 years 10 months ago
Recovering the Tree-Like Trend of Evolution Despite Extensive Lateral Genetic Transfer: A Probabilistic Analysis
Abstract. Lateral gene transfer (LGT) is a common mechanism of nonvertical evolution where genetic material is transferred between two more or less distantly related organisms. It ...
Sebastien Roch, Sagi Snir