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WOTUG
2008
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Solving the Santa Claus Problem: a Comparison of Various Concurrent Programming Techniques
Abstract. The Santa Claus problem provides an excellent exercise in concurrent programming and can be used to show the simplicity or complexity of solving problems using a particul...
Jason Hurt, Jan Bækgaard Pedersen
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ACL
2006
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Names and Similarities on the Web: Fact Extraction in the Fast Lane
In a new approach to large-scale extraction of facts from unstructured text, distributional similarities become an integral part of both the iterative acquisition of high-coverage...
Marius Pasca, Dekang Lin, Jeffrey Bigham, Andrei L...
VMV
2003
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Using Feature Flow Fields for Topological Comparison of Vector Fields
In this paper we propose a new topology based metric for 2D vector fields. This metric is based on the concept of feature flow fields. We show that it incorporates both the cha...
Holger Theisel, Christian Rössl, Hans-Peter S...
WSC
1997
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Million Dollar Logistic Decisions Using Simulation
This paper presents the development of a flexible simulation model of the rail operations at the Tropicana facility in Bradenton, Florida. The complexity of the process and system...
Michael Carr, Howard Way
SIGCOMM
2010
ACM
15 years 7 months ago
The little engine(s) that could: scaling online social networks
The difficulty of scaling Online Social Networks (OSNs) has introduced new system design challenges that has often caused costly re-architecting for services like Twitter and Face...
Josep M. Pujol, Vijay Erramilli, Georgos Siganos, ...