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MIDDLEWARE
2009
Springer
16 years 1 months ago
Why Do Upgrades Fail and What Can We Do about It?
Abstract. Enterprise-system upgrades are unreliable and often produce downtime or data-loss. Errors in the upgrade procedure, such as broken dependencies, constitute the leading ca...
Tudor Dumitras, Priya Narasimhan
SPAA
2010
ACM
15 years 11 months ago
Collaborative scoring with dishonest participants
Consider a set of players that are interested in collectively evaluating a set of objects. We develop a collaborative scoring protocol in which each player evaluates a subset of t...
Seth Gilbert, Rachid Guerraoui, Faezeh Malakouti R...
ICCV
2009
IEEE
16 years 12 months ago
Active Appearance Models with Rotation Invariant Kernels
2D Active Appearance Models (AAM) and 3D Morphable Models (3DMM) are widely used techniques. AAM provide a fast fitting process, but may represent unwanted 3D transformations un...
Onur C. Hamsici, Aleix M. Martinez
EUROPAR
2010
Springer
15 years 8 months ago
cTrust: Trust Aggregation in Cyclic Mobile Ad Hoc Networks
In a Cyclic Mobile Ad Hoc Network (CMANET) where nodes move cyclically, we formulate trust management problems and propose the cTrust scheme to handle trust establishment and aggre...
Huanyu Zhao, Xin Yang, Xiaolin Li
TC
2010
15 years 5 months ago
A Novel Weighted-Graph-Based Grouping Algorithm for Metadata Prefetching
— Although data prefetching algorithms have been extensively studied for years, there is no counterpart research done for metadata access performance. Existing data prefetching a...
Peng Gu, Jun Wang, Yifeng Zhu, Hong Jiang, Pengju ...