Search engine click logs provide an invaluable source of relevance information but this information is biased because we ignore which documents from the result list the users have...
Abstract-- Power has become a major concern for mobile computing systems such as laptops and handhelds, on which a significant fraction of software usage is interactive instead of ...
Live heap space analyses have so far been concerned with the standard sequential programming model. However, that model is not very well suited for embedded real-time systems, wher...
Network distance, measured as round-trip latency between hosts, is important for the performance of many Internet applications. For example, nearest server selection and proximity...
In high-tech industries, most manufacturing processes are complexly intertwined, in that manufacturers or engineers can hardly control a whole set of processes. They are only capa...