Peer-to-peer (P2P) storage is a promising technology to provide users with cheap and online persistence. However, due the instability of these infrastructures, P2P storage systems...
Many divide-and-conquer algorithms employ the fact that the vertex set of a graph of bounded treewidth can be separated in two roughly balanced subsets by removing a small subset o...
Fedor V. Fomin, Daniel Lokshtanov, Fabrizio Grando...
The ranking function used by search engines to order results is learned from labeled training data. Each training point is a (query, URL) pair that is labeled by a human judge who...
Rakesh Agrawal, Alan Halverson, Krishnaram Kenthap...
A 4KB page size has been used for Virtual Memory since the sixties. In fact, today, the most common page size is still 4KB. Choosing a page size is finding the middle ground betwe...
Relevance-based language models operate by estimating the probabilities of observing words in documents relevant (or pseudo relevant) to a topic. However, these models assume that ...