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CIKM
2009
Springer
16 years 1 months ago
A signal-to-noise approach to score normalization
Score normalization is indispensable in distributed retrieval and fusion or meta-search where merging of result-lists is required. Distributional approaches to score normalization...
Avi T. Arampatzis, Jaap Kamps
ESA
2005
Springer
123views Algorithms» more  ESA 2005»
16 years 10 days ago
Oblivious vs. Distribution-Based Sorting: An Experimental Evaluation
We compare two algorithms for sorting out-of-core data on a distributed-memory cluster. One algorithm, Csort, is a 3-pass oblivious algorithm. The other, Dsort, makes three passes...
Geeta Chaudhry, Thomas H. Cormen
INFOCOM
2002
IEEE
15 years 11 months ago
Provisioning Content Distribution Networks for Streaming Media
This paper develops simple cost models for provisioning content distribution networks that use the simple and highly scalable bandwidth skimming protocol for streaming. New insight...
Jussara M. Almeida, Derek L. Eager, Michael C. Fer...
AAAI
2010
15 years 8 months ago
Coalition Structure Generation based on Distributed Constraint Optimization
Forming effective coalitions is a major research challenge in AI and multi-agent systems (MAS). Coalition Structure Generation (CSG) involves partitioning a set of agents into coa...
Suguru Ueda, Atsushi Iwasaki, Makoto Yokoo, Marius...
WCE
2007
15 years 8 months ago
A Distributed Energy Efficient Query Processing in Self-Organized Wireless Sensor Networks
—Spatial query execution is an essential functionality of a sensor network. Redundancy within a sensor network can be exploited to reduce the communication cost incurred in execu...
Meer A. Hamza, Sherin M. Youssef, Salma F. Fayed