Abstract--With the increased presence of digital imaging devices, there also came an explosion in the amount of multimedia content available online. Users have transformed from pas...
We analyze the performance of protocols for load balancing in distributed systems based on no-regret algorithms from online learning theory. These protocols treat load balancing a...
Association, or LD (linkage disequilibrium), mapping is an intensely-studied approach to gene mapping (genome-wide or in candidate regions) that is widely hoped to be able to effic...
Implicit user feedback, including click-through and subsequent browsing behavior, is crucial for evaluating and improving the quality of results returned by search engines. Severa...
Client side caching of location dependent queries is an important technique for improving performance of location-based services. Most of the existing research in this area has fo...