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ESA
1995
Springer
127views Algorithms» more  ESA 1995»
13 years 11 months ago
Optimized Binary Search and Text Retrieval
We present an algorithm that minimizes the expected cost of indirect binary search for data with non-constant access costs, such as disk data. Indirect binary search means that sor...
Eduardo F. Barbosa, Gonzalo Navarro, Ricardo A. Ba...
AMT
2010
Springer
302views Multimedia» more  AMT 2010»
13 years 9 months ago
Social Relation Based Search Refinement: Let Your Friends Help You!
One of the major problems for search at Web scale is that the search results on the large scale data might be huge and the users have to browse to find the most relevant ones. Plus...
Xu Ren, Yi Zeng, Yulin Qin, Ning Zhong, Zhisheng H...
SIGMOD
2005
ACM
212views Database» more  SIGMOD 2005»
14 years 8 months ago
A Cost-Based Model and Effective Heuristic for Repairing Constraints by Value Modification
Data integrated from multiple sources may contain inconsistencies that violate integrity constraints. The constraint repair problem attempts to find "low cost" changes t...
Philip Bohannon, Michael Flaster, Wenfei Fan, Raje...
JSS
2002
128views more  JSS 2002»
13 years 7 months ago
The cost of errors in software development: evidence from industry
The search for and correction of errors in software are often time consuming and expensive components of the total cost of software development. The current research investigates ...
J. Christopher Westland
JUCS
2008
155views more  JUCS 2008»
13 years 8 months ago
Dynamic Bandwidth Pricing: Provision Cost, Market Size, Effective Bandwidths and Price Games
Abstract: Nowadays, in the markets of broadband access services, traditional contracts are of "static" type. Customers buy the right to use a specific amount of resources...
Sergios Soursos, Costas Courcoubetis, Richard R. W...