Abstract. In this paper a rigorous mathematical framework of deterministic annealing and mean-field approximation is presented for a general class of partitioning, clustering and ...
Four per-session guarantees are proposed to aid users and applications of weakly consistent replicated data: Read Your Writes, Monotonic Reads, Writes Follow Reads, and Monotonic ...
Douglas B. Terry, Alan J. Demers, Karin Petersen, ...
The differing requirements for concurrency models in programming languages and databases are widely diverse and often seemingly incompatible. The rigid provision of a particular c...
David S. Munro, Richard C. H. Connor, Ronald Morri...
We examine the task of concurrently computing alternative solutions to a problem. We restrict our interest to the case where only one of the solutions is needed; in this case we n...
We analyze the application of ensemble learning to recommender systems on the Netflix Prize dataset. For our analysis we use a set of diverse state-of-the-art collaborative filt...