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SIGMOD
2009
ACM
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16 years 6 months ago
Automated SQL tuning through trial and (sometimes) error
SQL tuning--the attempt to improve a poorly-performing execution plan produced by the database query optimizer-is a critical aspect of database performance tuning. Ironically, as ...
Herodotos Herodotou, Shivnath Babu
EUROSYS
2006
ACM
16 years 3 months ago
On the road to recovery: restoring data after disasters
—Restoring data operations after a disaster is a daunting task: how should recovery be performed to minimize data loss and application downtime? Administrators are under consider...
Kimberly Keeton, Dirk Beyer 0002, Ernesto Brau, Ar...
CSCW
2010
ACM
16 years 3 months ago
What's it worth to you?: the costs and affordances of CMC tools to asian and american users
In recent years, a growing number of studies examining how culture shapes computer-mediated communication (CMC) have appeared in the CHI and CSCW literature. Findings from these s...
Leslie D. Setlock, Susan R. Fussell
WWW
2010
ACM
16 years 1 months ago
Money, glory and cheap talk: analyzing strategic behavior of contestants in simultaneous crowdsourcing contests on TopCoder.com
Crowdsourcing is a new Web phenomenon, in which a firm takes a function once performed in-house and outsources it to a crowd, usually in the form of an open contest. Designing ef...
Nikolay Archak
EVOW
2010
Springer
16 years 1 months ago
Parameter Tuning of Evolutionary Algorithms: Generalist vs. Specialist
Abstract. Finding appropriate parameter values for Evolutionary Algorithms (EAs) is one of the persistent challenges of Evolutionary Computing. In recent publications we showed how...
Selmar K. Smit, A. E. Eiben