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IPPS
2006
IEEE
16 years 24 days ago
Dynamic resource allocation of computer clusters with probabilistic workloads
Real-time resource scheduling is an important factor for improving the performance of cluster computing. In many distributed and parallel processing systems, particularly real-tim...
Marwan S. Sleiman, Lester Lipsky, Robert Sheahan
IROS
2006
IEEE
168views Robotics» more  IROS 2006»
16 years 24 days ago
Scanning the Environment with Two Independent Cameras - Biologically Motivated Approach
— In this paper we present a novel method for visual scanning and target tracking by means of independent pan-tilt cameras which mimic the chameleon visual system. We present a s...
Ofir Avni, Francesco Borrelli, Gadi Katzir, Ehud R...
ASSETS
2006
ACM
16 years 23 days ago
From letters to words: efficient stroke-based word completion for trackball text entry
We present a major extension to our previous work on Trackball EdgeWrite—a unistroke text entry method for trackballs—by taking it from a character-level technique to a word-l...
Jacob O. Wobbrock, Brad A. Myers
SIGIR
2006
ACM
16 years 22 days ago
Statistical precision of information retrieval evaluation
We introduce and validate bootstrap techniques to compute confidence intervals that quantify the effect of test-collection variability on average precision (AP) and mean average...
Gordon V. Cormack, Thomas R. Lynam
ERCIMDL
2005
Springer
124views Education» more  ERCIMDL 2005»
16 years 9 days ago
A Comparison of On-Line Computer Science Citation Databases
This paper examines the difference and similarities between the two on-line computer science citation databases DBLP and CiteSeer. The database entries in DBLP are inserted manual...
Vaclav Petricek, Ingemar J. Cox, Hui Han, Isaac G....