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MOBISYS
2004
ACM
14 years 7 months ago
NWSLite: A Light-Weight Prediction Utility for Mobile Devices
Computation off-loading, i.e., remote execution, has been shown to be effective for extending the computational power and battery life of resource-restricted devices, e.g., hand-h...
Selim Gurun, Chandra Krintz, Richard Wolski
PPOPP
2010
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
A distributed placement service for graph-structured and tree-structured data
Effective data placement strategies can enhance the performance of data-intensive applications implemented on high end computing clusters. Such strategies can have a significant i...
Gregory Buehrer, Srinivasan Parthasarathy, Shirish...
WISEC
2009
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
Towards a theory for securing time synchronization in wireless sensor networks
Time synchronization in highly distributed wireless systems like sensor and ad hoc networks is extremely important in order to maintain a consistent notion of time throughout the ...
Murtuza Jadliwala, Qi Duan, Shambhu J. Upadhyaya, ...
WWW
2009
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
StatSnowball: a statistical approach to extracting entity relationships
Traditional relation extraction methods require pre-specified relations and relation-specific human-tagged examples. Bootstrapping systems significantly reduce the number of tr...
Jun Zhu, Zaiqing Nie, Xiaojiang Liu, Bo Zhang, Ji-...
ATAL
2009
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
Computing optimal randomized resource allocations for massive security games
Predictable allocations of security resources such as police officers, canine units, or checkpoints are vulnerable to exploitation by attackers. Recent work has applied game-theo...
Christopher Kiekintveld, Manish Jain, Jason Tsai, ...