Unit selection text-to-speech systems currently produce very natural synthesized phrases by concatenating speech segments from a large database. Recently, increasing demand for de...
MapReduce is a popular framework for data-intensive distributed computing of batch jobs. To simplify fault tolerance, many implementations of MapReduce materialize the entire outp...
Tyson Condie, Neil Conway, Peter Alvaro, Joseph M....
Abstract. One approach to system development is to decompose the requirements into features and specify the individual features before composing them. A major limitation of deferri...
Robin C. Laney, Thein Than Tun, Michael Jackson, B...
Language effect (Chinese vs. English), and power distance between evaluator and user in usability test were investigated. 12 participants from China, Swede, and Denmark formed 7 ev...
Workflows often operate in volatile environments in which the component services’ QoS changes frequently. Optimally adapting to these changes becomes an important problem that ...
Girish Chafle, Prashant Doshi, John Harney, Sumit ...