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WWW
2007
ACM
14 years 10 months ago
Why we search: visualizing and predicting user behavior
The aggregation and comparison of behavioral patterns on the WWW represent a tremendous opportunity for understanding past behaviors and predicting future behaviors. In this paper...
Eytan Adar, Daniel S. Weld, Brian N. Bershad, Stev...
MIDDLEWARE
2009
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
Why Do Upgrades Fail and What Can We Do about It?
Abstract. Enterprise-system upgrades are unreliable and often produce downtime or data-loss. Errors in the upgrade procedure, such as broken dependencies, constitute the leading ca...
Tudor Dumitras, Priya Narasimhan
TSD
2005
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
Why Is the Recognition of Spontaneous Speech so Hard?
Although speech, derived from reading texts, and similar types of speech, e.g. that from reading newspapers or that from news broadcast, can be recognized with high accuracy, recog...
Sadaoki Furui, Masanobu Nakamura, Tomohisa Ichiba,...
QUESTA
2010
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13 years 8 months ago
On the inapproximability of M/G/K: why two moments of job size distribution are not enough
The M/G/K queueing system is one of the oldest model for multi-server systems, and has been the topic of performance papers for almost half a century. However, even now, only coar...
Varun Gupta, Mor Harchol-Balter, J. G. Dai, Bert Z...
SPIRE
2010
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
Why Large Closest String Instances Are Easy to Solve in Practice
We initiate the study of the smoothed complexity of the Closest String problem by proposing a semi-random model of Hamming distance. We restrict interest to the optimization versio...
Christina Boucher, Kathleen Wilkie