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ICALP
2011
Springer
14 years 10 months ago
Content Search through Comparisons
We study the problem of navigating through a database of similar objects using comparisons. This problem is known to be strongly related to the small-world network design problem....
Amin Karbasi, Stratis Ioannidis, Laurent Massouli&...
AAAI
2012
13 years 9 months ago
Quality Expectation-Variance Tradeoffs in Crowdsourcing Contests
We examine designs for crowdsourcing contests, where participants compete for rewards given to superior solutions of a task. We theoretically analyze tradeoffs between the expecta...
Xi Alice Gao, Yoram Bachrach, Peter Key, Thore Gra...
PUC
2011
15 years 1 months ago
Shape-changing interfaces
The design of physical interfaces has been constrained by the relative akinesis of the material world. Current advances in materials science promise to change this. In this paper, ...
Marcelo Coelho, Jamie Zigelbaum
CCGRID
2005
IEEE
16 years 12 days ago
Increasing distributed storage survivability with a stackable RAID-like file system
We have designed a stackable file system called Redundant Array of Independent Filesystems (RAIF). It combines the data survivability properties and performance benefits of trad...
Nikolai Joukov, Abhishek Rai, Erez Zadok
RTSS
2005
IEEE
16 years 10 days ago
Optimal Task Rate Selection in Fixed Priority Systems
The design phase of any real-time system requires balancing the limited computational resources against the functional requirements and the performance of the application. The opt...
Enrico Bini, Marco Di Natale