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PVLDB
2008
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Scheduling shared scans of large data files
We study how best to schedule scans of large data files, in the presence of many simultaneous requests to a common set of files. The objective is to maximize the overall rate of p...
Parag Agrawal, Daniel Kifer, Christopher Olston
SCFBM
2008
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Purposeful selection of variables in logistic regression
The main problem in any model-building situation is to choose from a large set of covariates those that should be included in the "best" model. A decision to keep a vari...
Zoran Bursac, C. Heath Gauss, David Keith Williams...
TMC
2008
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COACS: A Cooperative and Adaptive Caching System for MANETs
This paper introduces a cooperation-based database caching system for Mobile Ad Hoc Networks (MANETs). The heart of the system is the nodes that cache submitted queries. The querie...
Hassan Artail, Haïdar Safa, Khaleel W. Mersha...
TPDS
2008
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Free-Riding on BitTorrent-Like Peer-to-Peer File Sharing Systems: Modeling Analysis and Improvement
BitTorrent has emerged as a very popular peer-to-peer file sharing system, which uses an embedded set of incentive mechanisms to encourage contribution and prevent free-riding. How...
Minglu Li, Jiadi Yu, Jie Wu
TPDS
2008
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Secure Collaboration in a Mediator-Free Distributed Environment
The internet and related technologies have made multidomain collaborations a reality. Collaboration enables domains to effectively share resources; however, it introduces several s...
Mohamed Shehab, Arif Ghafoor, Elisa Bertino