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CSCW
2010
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Pitfalls of information access with visualizations in remote collaborative analysis
In a world of widespread information access, information can overwhelm collaborators, even with visualizations to help. We extend prior work to study the effect of shared informat...
Aruna D. Balakrishnan, Susan R. Fussell, Sara B. K...
AO
2005
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13 years 8 months ago
Domain modelling and NLP: Formal ontologies? Lexica? Or a bit of both?
There are a number of genuinely open questions concerning the use of domain models in nlp. It would be great if contributors to Applied Ontology could help addressing them rather ...
Massimo Poesio
PVLDB
2010
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13 years 6 months ago
Read-Once Functions and Query Evaluation in Probabilistic Databases
Probabilistic databases hold promise of being a viable means for large-scale uncertainty management, increasingly needed in a number of real world applications domains. However, q...
Prithviraj Sen, Amol Deshpande, Lise Getoor
PVLDB
2010
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13 years 3 months ago
Schism: a Workload-Driven Approach to Database Replication and Partitioning
We present Schism, a novel workload-aware approach for database partitioning and replication designed to improve scalability of sharednothing distributed databases. Because distri...
Carlo Curino, Yang Zhang, Evan P. C. Jones, Samuel...
SIGMETRICS
2008
ACM
13 years 8 months ago
Scheduling despite inexact job-size information
Motivated by the optimality of Shortest Remaining Processing Time (SRPT) for mean response time, in recent years many computer systems have used the heuristic of "favoring sm...
Adam Wierman, Misja Nuyens