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EUROSYS
2006
ACM
16 years 3 months ago
Tashkent: uniting durability with transaction ordering for high-performance scalable database replication
In stand-alone databases, the two functions of ordering the transaction commits and making the effects of transactions durable are generally performed in one action, namely in the...
Sameh Elnikety, Steven G. Dropsho, Fernando Pedone
ESA
2004
Springer
129views Algorithms» more  ESA 2004»
16 years 1 days ago
Contraction and Treewidth Lower Bounds
Edge contraction is shown to be a useful mechanism to improve lower bound heuristics for treewidth. A successful lower bound for treewidth is the degeneracy: the maximum over all ...
Hans L. Bodlaender, Arie M. C. A. Koster, Thomas W...
ECCV
2008
Springer
15 years 8 months ago
Unsupervised Classification and Part Localization by Consistency Amplification
We present a novel method for unsupervised classification, including the discovery of a new category and precise object and part localization. Given a set of unlabelled images, som...
Leonid Karlinsky, Michael Dinerstein, Dan Levi, Sh...
TREC
2003
15 years 8 months ago
Report on the TREC 2003 Experiment: Genomic Track
After retrieval, this simple strategy yield to an important improvement of the average precision: from 17.02 up to 35.80. Task II. Our approach is based on argumentative structurin...
Patrick Ruch, Gilles Cohen, Frédéric...
PROPERTYTESTING
2010
15 years 4 months ago
Sublinear Algorithms in the External Memory Model
We initiate the study of sublinear-time algorithms in the external memory model [Vit01]. In this model, the data is stored in blocks of a certain size B, and the algorithm is char...
Alexandr Andoni, Piotr Indyk, Krzysztof Onak, Roni...