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SIGIR
2010
ACM
15 years 6 months ago
Scalability of findability: effective and efficient IR operations in large information networks
It is crucial to study basic principles that support adaptive and scalable retrieval functions in large networked environments such as the Web, where information is distributed am...
Weimao Ke, Javed Mostafa
AVBPA
2005
Springer
296views Biometrics» more  AVBPA 2005»
15 years 11 months ago
Exploring Similarity Measures for Biometric Databases
Currently biometric system performance is evaluated in terms of its FAR and FRR. The accuracy expressed in such a manner depends on the characteristics of the dataset on which the ...
Praveer Mansukhani, Venu Govindaraju
CAV
2010
Springer
190views Hardware» more  CAV 2010»
15 years 9 months ago
Measuring and Synthesizing Systems in Probabilistic Environments
Often one has a preference order among the different systems that satisfy a given specification. Under a probabilistic assumption about the possible inputs, such a preference order...
Krishnendu Chatterjee, Thomas A. Henzinger, Barbar...
QEST
2007
IEEE
16 years 8 days ago
A Generic Mean Field Convergence Result for Systems of Interacting Objects
We consider a model for interacting objects, where the evolution of each object is given by a finite state Markov chain, whose transition matrix depends on the present and the pa...
Jean-Yves Le Boudec, David McDonald, Jochen Mundin...
AOSD
2010
ACM
16 years 26 days ago
Tracking code patterns over multiple software versions with Herodotos
An important element of understanding a software code base is to identify the repetitive patterns of code it contains and how these evolve over time. Some patterns are useful to t...
Nicolas Palix, Julia L. Lawall, Gilles Muller