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EDBT
2011
ACM
199views Database» more  EDBT 2011»
12 years 11 months ago
Predicting completion times of batch query workloads using interaction-aware models and simulation
A question that database administrators (DBAs) routinely need to answer is how long a batch query workload will take to complete. This question arises, for example, while planning...
Mumtaz Ahmad, Songyun Duan, Ashraf Aboulnaga, Shiv...
PROMISE
2010
13 years 2 months ago
Case-based reasoning vs parametric models for software quality optimization
Background: There are many data mining methods but few comparisons between them. For example, there are at least two ways to build quality optimizers, programs that find project o...
Adam Brady, Tim Menzies
STOC
2012
ACM
251views Algorithms» more  STOC 2012»
11 years 10 months ago
Minimax option pricing meets black-scholes in the limit
Option contracts are a type of financial derivative that allow investors to hedge risk and speculate on the variation of an asset’s future market price. In short, an option has...
Jacob Abernethy, Rafael M. Frongillo, Andre Wibiso...
CORR
2011
Springer
189views Education» more  CORR 2011»
13 years 2 months ago
Aging in language dynamics
Human languages evolve continuously, and a puzzling problem is how to reconcile the apparent robustness of most of the deep linguistic structures we use with the evidence that the...
Animesh Mukherjee, Francesca Tria, Andrea Baronche...
IMC
2005
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
Poisson versus Periodic Path Probing (or, Does PASTA Matter?)
Abstract— The well-known PASTA (“Poisson Arrivals See Time Averages”) property states that, under very general conditions, the fraction of Poisson arrivals that observe an un...
Muhammad Mukarram Bin Tariq, Amogh Dhamdhere, Cons...