The performance of file systems and related software depends on characteristics of the underlying file-system image (i.e., file-system metadata and file contents). Unfortunately, ...
Nitin Agrawal, Andrea C. Arpaci-Dusseau, Remzi H. ...
A room is a simple polygon with a prespecified point, called the door, on its boundary. A search starts at the door and must detect any intruder that may be in the room, while maki...
Binay K. Bhattacharya, John Z. Zhang, Qiaosheng Sh...
It is well known that the performance of a stochastic local search procedure depends upon the setting of its noise parameter, and that the optimal setting varies with the problem ...
The paper describes the optimisation of Viterbi search used in unit selection TTS, since with a large speech corpus necessary to achieve a high level of naturalness, the performan...
An improved understanding of the relationship between search intent, result quality, and searcher behavior is crucial for improving the effectiveness of web search. While recent p...