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2003
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
Magpie: Online Modelling and Performance-aware Systems
Understanding the performance of distributed systems requires correlation of thousands of interactions between numerous components — a task best left to a computer. Today’s sy...
Paul Barham, Rebecca Isaacs, Richard Mortier, Dush...
ICALP
2001
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
Secure Games with Polynomial Expressions
Abstract. We present the first private information retrieval (PIR) scheme which is both, deterministically correct and has poly-logarithmic communication complexity. Our PIR proto...
Aggelos Kiayias, Moti Yung
VLDB
2001
ACM
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14 years 2 months ago
Comparing Hybrid Peer-to-Peer Systems
“Peer-to-peer” systems like Napster and Gnutella have recently become popular for sharing information. In this paper, we study the relevant issues and tradeoffs in designing a...
Beverly Yang, Hector Garcia-Molina
SIGIR
1999
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
Information Retrieval as Statistical Translation
We propose a new probabilistic approach to information retrieval based upon the ideas and methods of statistical machine translation. The central ingredient in this approach is a ...
Adam L. Berger, John D. Lafferty
CVPR
2009
IEEE
14 years 28 days ago
Robust unsupervised segmentation of degraded document images with topic models
Segmentation of document images remains a challenging vision problem. Although document images have a structured layout, capturing enough of it for segmentation can be difficult....
Timothy J. Burns, Jason J. Corso