Assume a uniform, multidimensional grid of bivariate data, where each cell of the grid has a count ci and a baseline bi. Our goal is to find spatial regions (d-dimensional rectang...
Daniel B. Neill, Andrew W. Moore, Francisco Pereir...
ThunderDome is a system for collaboratively measuring upload bandwidths in ad-hoc peer-to-peer systems. It works by scheduling bandwidth probes between pairs of hosts, wherein eac...
John R. Douceur, James W. Mickens, Thomas Moscibro...
We investigate the effects of precision on the efficiency of various local search algorithms on 1-D unimodal functions. We present a (1 + 1)-EA with adaptive step size which fin...
Martin Dietzfelbinger, Jonathan E. Rowe, Ingo Wege...
One of the formalisms to qualitatively describe polylines in the plane are double-cross matrices. In a double-cross matrix the relative position of any two line segments in a poly...
In this paper we introduce the new task of social event extraction from text. We distinguish two broad types of social events depending on whether only one or both parties are awa...