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KDD
2008
ACM
128views Data Mining» more  KDD 2008»
14 years 8 months ago
Bypass rates: reducing query abandonment using negative inferences
We introduce a new approach to analyzing click logs by examining both the documents that are clicked and those that are bypassed--documents returned higher in the ordering of the ...
Atish Das Sarma, Sreenivas Gollapudi, Samuel Ieong
SC
2009
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
Leveraging 3D PCRAM technologies to reduce checkpoint overhead for future exascale systems
The scalability of future massively parallel processing (MPP) systems is being severely challenged by high failure rates. Current hard disk drive (HDD) checkpointing results in ov...
Xiangyu Dong, Naveen Muralimanohar, Norman P. Joup...
IROS
2009
IEEE
129views Robotics» more  IROS 2009»
14 years 2 months ago
Planning fireworks trajectories for steerable medical needles to reduce patient trauma
— Accurate needle insertion in 3D environment is always a grand challenge. When multiple targets are located in the tissue, a procedure of inserting multiple needles from a singl...
Jijie Xu, Vincent Duindam, Ron Alterovitz, Jean Po...
ICC
2007
IEEE
177views Communications» more  ICC 2007»
14 years 2 months ago
Intelligent Gateways Placement for Reduced Data Latency in Wireless Sensor Networks
— Many applications of wireless sensor networks (WSNs) have emerged over the last few years. In such networks resource-constrained sensor nodes are deployed to probe their surrou...
Waleed A. Youssef, Mohamed F. Younis
CHI
2005
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Using context-aware computing to reduce the perceived burden of interruptions from mobile devices
The potential for sensor-enabled mobile devices to proactively present information when and where users need it ranks among the greatest promises of ubiquitous computing. Unfortun...
Joyce Ho, Stephen S. Intille