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LREC
2010
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15 years 9 months ago
Evaluating Human-Machine Conversation for Appropriateness
Evaluation of complex, collaborative dialogue systems is a difficult task. Traditionally, developers have relied upon subjective feedback from the user, and parametrisation over o...
Nick Webb, David Benyon, Preben Hansen, Oli Mival
COMAD
2009
15 years 8 months ago
Consistency of Databases on Commodity Disk Drives
Most database systems use ARIES-like logging and recovery scheme to recover from failures and guarantee transactional consistency. ARIES relies on the Write-Ahead Logging (WAL) pr...
Robin Dhamankar, Hanuma Kodavalla, Vishal Kathuria
SIGMOD
2007
ACM
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16 years 7 months ago
JouleSort: a balanced energy-efficiency benchmark
The energy efficiency of computer systems is an important concern in a variety of contexts. In data centers, reducing energy use improves operating cost, scalability, reliability,...
Suzanne Rivoire, Mehul A. Shah, Parthasarathy Rang...
CLEF
2005
Springer
16 years 1 months ago
BulQA: Bulgarian-Bulgarian Question Answering at CLEF 2005
This paper describes the architecture of a Bulgarian–Bulgarian question answering system — BulQA. The system relies on a partially parsed corpus for answer extraction. The que...
Kiril Ivanov Simov, Petya Osenova
SAFECOMP
2004
Springer
16 years 28 days ago
How Explicit Are the Barriers to Failure in Safety Arguments?
Safety cases embody arguments that demonstrate how safety properties of a system are upheld. Such cases implicitly document the barriers that must exist between hazards and vulnera...
Shamus P. Smith, Michael D. Harrison, Bastiaan A. ...