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CHI
2008
ACM
16 years 6 months ago
Electronic voting machines versus traditional methods: improved preference, similar performance
In the 2006 U.S. election, it was estimated that over 66 million people would be voting on direct recording electronic (DRE) systems in 34% of the nation's counties [8]. Alth...
Sarah P. Everett, Kristen K. Greene, Michael D. By...
EUROSYS
2009
ACM
16 years 3 months ago
Improving the responsiveness of internet services with automatic cache placement
The backends of today’s Internet services rely heavily on caching at various layers both to provide faster service to common requests and to reduce load on back-end components. ...
Alexander Rasmussen, Emre Kiciman, V. Benjamin Liv...
ICCS
2009
Springer
16 years 1 months ago
Improving the Scalability of SimGrid Using Dynamic Routing
Research into large-scale distributed systems often relies on the use of simulation frameworks in order to bypass the disadvantages of performing experiments on real testbeds. SimG...
Silas De Munck, Kurt Vanmechelen, Jan Broeckhove
GECCO
2009
Springer
121views Optimization» more  GECCO 2009»
15 years 11 months ago
Using memetic algorithms to improve portfolio performance in static and dynamic trading scenarios
The Portfolio Optimization problem consists of the selection of a group of assets to a long-term fund in order to minimize the risk and maximize the return of the investment. This...
Claus de Castro Aranha, Hitoshi Iba
COLING
2010
15 years 1 months ago
Improving the Quality of Text Understanding by Delaying Ambiguity Resolution
Text Understanding systems often commit to a single best interpretation of a sentence before analyzing subsequent text. This interpretation is chosen by resolving ambiguous altern...
Doo Soon Kim, Ken Barker, Bruce W. Porter