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FSTTCS
2009
Springer
16 years 1 months ago
Kolmogorov Complexity in Randomness Extraction
We clarify the role of Kolmogorov complexity in the area of randomness extraction. We show that a computable function is an almost randomness extractor if and only if it is a Kolm...
John M. Hitchcock, Aduri Pavan, N. V. Vinodchandra...
SIGMETRICS
1999
ACM
137views Hardware» more  SIGMETRICS 1999»
15 years 11 months ago
A Large-Scale Study of File-System Contents
We collect and analyze a snapshot of data from 10,568 file systems of 4801 Windows personal computers in a commercial environment. The file systems contain 140 million files total...
John R. Douceur, William J. Bolosky
TMI
1998
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15 years 6 months ago
Image Contrast Enhancement Based on a Histogram Transformation of Local Standard Deviation
Abstract— The adaptive contrast enhancement (ACE) algorithm, which uses contrast gains (CG’s) to adjust the highfrequency components of images, is a well-known technique for me...
Dah-Chung Chang, Wen-Rong Wu
COLCOM
2007
IEEE
16 years 1 months ago
Face2face social bookmarking with recommendations: WebQuests in the classrooms
—In this paper we present SYNCOBOOK, a distributed system that offers the functionalities of a face-to-face cooperative bookmarking system and of a recommendation system. Our ove...
Raffaella Grieco, Delfina Malandrino, Giuseppina P...
CSCWD
2005
Springer
16 years 5 days ago
Supporting peer-to-peer collaboration through trust
Distributed systems generally require their component parts to interact cooperatively, in order for the system as a whole to function effectively. For any given activity, several ...
Nathan Griffiths, Shanghua Sun