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1999
13 years 8 months ago
A Simple and Fast Asynchronous Consensus Protocol Based on a Weak Failure Detector
or fault-tolerant asynchronous systems. It abstracts a family of problems known as Agreement (or Coordination) problems. Any solution to consensus can serve as a basic building blo...
Michel Hurfin, Michel Raynal
SIGIR
2002
ACM
13 years 8 months ago
Two-stage language models for information retrieval
The optimal settings of retrieval parameters often depend on both the document collection and the query, and are usually found through empirical tuning. In this paper, we propose ...
ChengXiang Zhai, John D. Lafferty
VTC
2010
IEEE
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13 years 6 months ago
QoS and Flow Management for Future Multi-Hop Mobile Radio Networks
Abstract— Mobile radio networks of the IMT-Advanced systems family promise ubiquitous broadband access and high area coverage, with rates of several 100 MBit/s. They claim to gua...
Rainer Schoenen, Arif Otyakmaz
ISW
2010
Springer
13 years 6 months ago
Efficient Computationally Private Information Retrieval from Anonymity or Trapdoor Groups
A Private Information Retrieval (PIR) protocol allows a database user, or client, to obtain information from a data- base in a manner that prevents the database from knowing which...
Jonathan T. Trostle, Andy Parrish
CHI
2011
ACM
13 years 1 hour ago
Towards a design model for women's empowerment in the developing world
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Nicholas Kristof argues that “in this century the paramount moral challenge will be the struggle for gender equality around the world.” In th...
Geeta Shroff, Matthew Kam