Interactive clustering refers to situations in which a human labeler is willing to assist a learning algorithm in automatically clustering items. We present a related but somewhat...
Sumit Basu, Danyel Fisher, Steven M. Drucker, Hao ...
We introduce the Free Factory, a platform for deploying data-intensive web services using small clusters of commodity hardware and free software. Independently administered virtua...
Alexander Wait Zaranek, Tom Clegg, Ward Vandewege,...
This paper presents the first participation of the University of Ottawa group in the Photo Retrieval task at Image CLEF 2008. Our system uses Lucene for text indexing and LIRE for ...
With the advent of high-performance COTS clusters, there is a need for a simple, scalable and faulttolerant parallel programming and execution paradigm. In this paper, we show that...
Reza Farivar, Abhishek Verma, Ellick Chan, Roy H. ...
In this article, we revisit the problem of scheduling dynamically generated directed acyclic graphs (DAGs) of multi-processor tasks (M-tasks). A DAG is a basic model for expressin...