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AINA
2009
IEEE
15 years 4 months ago
Document-Oriented Pruning of the Inverted Index in Information Retrieval Systems
Searching very large collections can be costly in both computation and storage. To reduce this cost, recent research has focused on reducing the size (pruning) of the inverted ind...
Lei Zheng, Ingemar J. Cox
DSN
2008
IEEE
16 years 1 months ago
A robust and lightweight stable leader election service for dynamic systems
We describe the implementation and experimental evaluation of a fault-tolerant leader election service for dynamic systems. Intuitively, distributed applications can use this serv...
Nicolas Schiper, Sam Toueg
DPPI
2007
ACM
15 years 10 months ago
My agent as myself or another: effects on credibility and listening to advice
Abstract. People consider other people who resemble them to be more persuasive. Users may consider embodied conversational agents, or ECAs, to be more persuasive if the agents rese...
Ian Li, Jodi Forlizzi, Anind K. Dey, Sara B. Kiesl...
SIGCSE
2005
ACM
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16 years 3 days ago
Experiences teaching operating systems using virtual platforms and linux
Operating system courses teach students much more when they provide hands-on kernel-level project experience with a real operating system. However, enabling a large class of stude...
Jason Nieh, Chris Vaill
HPDC
2006
IEEE
16 years 18 days ago
Resource Availability Prediction in Fine-Grained Cycle Sharing Systems
Fine-Grained Cycle Sharing (FGCS) systems aim at utilizing the large amount of computational resources available on the Internet. In FGCS, host computers allow guest jobs to utili...
Xiaojuan Ren, Seyong Lee, Rudolf Eigenmann, Saurab...