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HPDC
2002
IEEE
15 years 11 months ago
A Decentralized, Adaptive Replica Location Mechanism
We describe a decentralized, adaptive mechanism for replica location in wide-area distributed systems. Unlike traditional, hierarchical (e.g, DNS) and more recent (e.g., CAN, Chor...
Matei Ripeanu, Ian T. Foster
INFSOF
2006
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15 years 6 months ago
A comparison of two approaches to utilizing XML in parametric databases for temporal data
The parametric data model captures an object in terms of a single tuple. This feature eliminates unnecessary self-join operations to combine tuples scattered in a temporal relatio...
Seo-Young Noh, Shashi K. Gadia
CLEF
2004
Springer
15 years 12 months ago
Medical Image Retrieval Using Texture, Locality and Colour
We describe our experiments for the Image CLEF medical retrieval task. Our efforts were focused on the initial visual search. A content based approach was followed. We used textur...
Peter Howarth, Alexei Yavlinsky, Daniel Heesch, St...
WAW
2007
Springer
77views Algorithms» more  WAW 2007»
16 years 19 days ago
Using Bloom Filters to Speed Up HITS-Like Ranking Algorithms
Abstract. This paper describes a technique for reducing the querytime cost of HITS-like ranking algorithm. The basic idea is to compute for each node in the web graph a summary of ...
Sreenivas Gollapudi, Marc Najork, Rina Panigrahy
AGI
2008
15 years 8 months ago
Comirit: Commonsense Reasoning by Integrating Simulation and Logic
Rich computer simulations or quantitative models can enable an agent to realistically predict real-world behavior with precision and performance that is difficult to emulate in log...
Benjamin Johnston, Mary-Anne Williams