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OSDI
2008
ACM
16 years 7 months ago
Improving MapReduce Performance in Heterogeneous Environments
MapReduce is emerging as an important programming model for large-scale data-parallel applications such as web indexing, data mining, and scientific simulation. Hadoop is an open-...
Matei Zaharia, Andy Konwinski, Anthony D. Joseph, ...
SIGMOD
2003
ACM
118views Database» more  SIGMOD 2003»
16 years 6 months ago
Improving the Efficiency of Database-System Teaching
The education industry has a very poor record of productivity gains. In this brief article, I outline some of the ways the teaching of a college course in database systems could b...
Jeffrey D. Ullman
ICC
2009
IEEE
151views Communications» more  ICC 2009»
16 years 1 months ago
Improved Vector Perturbation with Modulo Loss Reduction for Multiuser Downlink Systems
— In this paper, we present an improved precoding technique which reduces a modulo loss in vector perturbation (VP) with low complexity for the downlink of a multiuser multiple-i...
Hyeon-Seung Han, Seokhwan Park, Inkyu Lee
IROS
2009
IEEE
139views Robotics» more  IROS 2009»
16 years 1 months ago
Improving robot navigation in structured outdoor environments by identifying vegetation from laser data
— This paper addresses the problem of vegetation detection from laser measurements. The ability to detect vegetation is important for robots operating outdoors, since it enables ...
Kai M. Wurm, Rainer Kümmerle, Cyrill Stachnis...
RECSYS
2009
ACM
16 years 1 months ago
Using a trust network to improve top-N recommendation
Top-N item recommendation is one of the important tasks of recommenders. Collaborative filtering is the most popular approach to building recommender systems which can predict ra...
Mohsen Jamali, Martin Ester