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SIGIR
2009
ACM
16 years 28 days ago
SUSHI: scoring scaled samples for server selection
Modern techniques for distributed information retrieval use a set of documents sampled from each server, but these samples have been underutilised in server selection. We describe...
Paul Thomas, Milad Shokouhi
CIKM
2011
Springer
14 years 6 months ago
Improved answer ranking in social question-answering portals
Community QA portals provide an important resource for non-factoid question-answering. The inherent noisiness of user-generated data makes the identification of high-quality cont...
Felix Hieber, Stefan Riezler
DSN
2011
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
Resource and virtualization costs up in the cloud: Models and design choices
—Virtualization offers the potential for cost-effective service provisioning. For service providers who make significant investments in new virtualized data centers in support of...
Daniel Gmach, Jerry Rolia, Ludmila Cherkasova
KES
2010
Springer
15 years 4 months ago
OVACARE: A Multi-Agent System for Assistance and Health Care
This paper presents a case study in which the OVAMAH architecture is applied in order to obtain a multi-agent system (MAS) that can provide assistance and health care for Alzheimer...
Juan Francisco de Paz, Sara Rodríguez, Javi...
IISWC
2009
IEEE
16 years 1 months ago
Experimental evaluation of N-tier systems: Observation and analysis of multi-bottlenecks
In many areas such as e-commerce, mission-critical N-tier applications have grown increasingly complex. They are characterized by non-stationary workloads (e.g., peak load several...
Simon Malkowski, Markus Hedwig, Calton Pu