Large archival storage systems experience long periods of idleness broken up by rare data accesses. In such systems, disks may remain powered off for long periods of time. These s...
Thomas J. E. Schwarz, Qin Xin, Ethan L. Miller, Da...
Lose sight of the existence of system crosscutting concerns, e.g. safety and quality etc, often causes the system hard to maintain and evolve according to the changing environment...
We give new constructions of randomness extractors and lossless condensers that are optimal to within constant factors in both the seed length and the output length. For extractor...
Venkatesan Guruswami, Christopher Umans, Salil P. ...
: Query transformation is a serious hurdle on semantic peer-to-peer environment. For interoperability between peers, queries sent from a source peer have to be efficiently transfor...
Recommender systems are a nice tool to help nd items of interest from an overwhelming number of available items. Collaborative Filtering (CF), the best known technology for recomme...