Summative evaluation methods for supervised adaptive topic tracking systems convolve the effect of system decisions on present utility with the effect on future utility. This pa...
Using historical information to predict future runs of parallel jobs has shown to be valuable in job scheduling. Trends toward more flexible jobscheduling techniques such as adapt...
When implementing persistent objects on a relational database, a major performance issue is prefetching data to minimize the number of roundtrips to the database. This is especial...
Accessing information sources to retrieve data requested by a user can be expensive, especially when dealing with distributed information sources. One way to reduce this cost is t...
Consider a scenario in which a smart phone automatically saves the user’s positional records for personalized location-based applications. The smart phone will infer patterns of ...