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RTAS
2011
IEEE
14 years 10 months ago
ARCH: Practical Channel Hopping for Reliable Home-Area Sensor Networks
Abstract—Home area networks (HANs) promise to enable sophisticated home automation applications such as smart energy usage and assisted living. However, recent empirical study of...
Mo Sha, Gregory Hackmann, Chenyang Lu
PODC
2004
ACM
15 years 12 months ago
Load balancing and locality in range-queriable data structures
We describe a load-balancing mechanism for assigning elements to servers in a distributed data structure that supports range queries. The mechanism ensures both load-balancing wit...
James Aspnes, Jonathan Kirsch, Arvind Krishnamurth...
IPPS
2002
IEEE
15 years 11 months ago
Automatic Reincarnation of Deceased Plug-Ins in the HARNESS Metacomputing System
HARNESS is an experimental metacomputing system that supports dynamic software reconfiguration, both of the resources that comprise the virtual machine and the services provided t...
Mauro Migliardi, Vaidy S. Sunderam
LREC
2008
110views Education» more  LREC 2008»
15 years 8 months ago
Cost-Sensitive Learning in Answer Extraction
One problem of data-driven answer extraction in open-domain factoid question answering is that the class distribution of labeled training data is fairly imbalanced. This imbalance...
Michael Wiegand, Jochen L. Leidner, Dietrich Klako...
ICML
2006
IEEE
16 years 7 months ago
Learning algorithms for online principal-agent problems (and selling goods online)
In a principal-agent problem, a principal seeks to motivate an agent to take a certain action beneficial to the principal, while spending as little as possible on the reward. This...
Vincent Conitzer, Nikesh Garera