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Bigtable: A Distributed Storage System for Structured Data
Bigtable is a distributed storage system for managing structured data that is designed to scale to a very large size: petabytes of data across thousands of commodity servers. Many...
Fay Chang, Jeffrey Dean, Sanjay Ghemawat, Wilson C...
URBAN
2008
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Automatic identification of urban settlement boundaries for multiple representation databases
Intuitive and meaningful interpretation of geographical phenomena requires their representation at multiple levels of detail. This is due to the scale dependent nature of their pr...
Omair Chaudhry, William A. Mackaness
AI
2002
Springer
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Programming backgammon using self-teaching neural nets
TD-Gammon is a neural network that is able to teach itself to play backgammon solely by playing against itself and learning from the results. Starting from random initial play, TD...
Gerald Tesauro
CL
1999
Springer
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Optimizing floating point operations in Scheme
It is well known that dynamic typing in languages like Lisp is costly in terms of performance. Besides the cost of tag checking, the other major source of ine ciency comes from th...
W. F. Wong
DCC
1999
IEEE
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Designs in Product Association Schemes
Recently, P.J. Cameron studied a class of block designs which generalises the classes of t-designs, -resolved 2-designs, orthogonal arrays, and other classes of combinatorial desi...
William J. Martin