This paper describes an efficient optimistic concurrency control scheme for use in distributed database systems in which objects are cached and manipulated at client machines whil...
Atul Adya, Robert Gruber, Barbara Liskov, Umesh Ma...
Many real-world data mining tasks require the achievement of two distinct goals when applied to unseen data: first, to induce an accurate preference ranking, and second to give g...
— It is well known that the performance of adaptive beamformers may degrade in the presence of steering errors. In this context, diagonal loading is one of the most popular metho...
With the success of local features in object recognition, feature-set representations are widely used in computer vision and related domains. Pyramid match kernel (PMK) is an effi...
Current weak consistency semantics provide worst-case guarantees to clients. These guarantees fail to adequately describe systems that provide varying levels of consistency in the...
Amitanand S. Aiyer, Eric Anderson, Xiaozhou Li, Me...