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Why is the winner the best?

Gabriel Girard, Jian Wang, Ho Ling Li, Adrien Raphaël Depeursinge, Yong Yang, Fan Xia, Xiao Wang, Jing Li, Hui Wang

International benchmarking competitions have become fundamental for the comparative performance assessment of image analysis methods. However, little attention has been given to investigating what can be learnt from these competitions. Do they really gener ...

Ieee Computer Soc2023

An Improved Analysis of Local Search for Max-Sum Diversification

Friedrich Eisenbrand, Rico Zenklusen, Alfonso Bolívar Cevallos Manzano

We present new techniques to analyze natural local search algorithms for several variants of the max-sum diversification problem which, in its most basic form, is as follows: given an n-point set X subset of R-d and an integer k, select k points in X so th ...

INFORMS2019

PerfIso: Performance Isolation for Commercial Latency-Sensitive Services

Sameh Mohamed Elnikety, Calin Iorgulescu

Large commercial latency-sensitive services, such as web search, run on dedicated clusters provisioned for peak load to ensure responsiveness and tolerate data center outages. As a result, the average load is far lower than the peak load used for provision ...

The USENIX Association2018

PerfIso: Performance Isolation for Commercial Latency-Sensitive Services

Sameh Mohamed Elnikety, Calin Iorgulescu

Large commercial latency-sensitive services, such as web search, run on dedicated clusters provisioned for peak load to ensure responsiveness and tolerate data center outages. As a result, the average load is far lower than the peak load used for provision ...

USENIX ASSOC2018

Towards Near-Threshold Server Processors

David Atienza Alonso, Babak Falsafi, Marina Zapater Sancho, Luca Benini, Ali Pahlevan, Pablo Garcia del Valle, Javier Picorel Obando, Arash Pourhabibi Zarandi

The popularity of cloud computing has led to a dramatic increase in the number of data centers in the world. The ever-increasing computational demands along with the slowdown in technology scaling has ushered an era of power-limited servers. Techniques suc ...

IEEE/ACM2016

B-hist: Entity-centric search over personal web browsing history

Karl Aberer, Philippe Cudré-Mauroux, Michele Catasta, Jean-Eudes Marie Ranvier

Web Search is increasingly entity centric; as a large fraction of common queries target specific entities, search results get progressively augmented with semi-structured and multimedia information about those entities. However, search over personal web br ...

Elsevier2014

Scalable Collaborative Bayesian Preference Learning

Matthias Seeger, Mohammad Emtiyaz Khan, Young Jun Ko

Learning about users’ utilities from preference, discrete choice or implicit feedback data is of integral importance in e-commerce, targeted advertising and web search. Due to the sparsity and diffuse nature of data, Bayesian approaches hold much promise, ...

2014

Correlation-Aware Virtual Machine Allocation for Energy-Efficient Datacenters

David Atienza Alonso, Martino Ruggiero, Jungsoo Kim, Marcel Ledergerber

Server consolidation plays a key role to mitigate the continuous power increase of datacenters. The recent advent of scale-out applications (e.g., web search, MapReduce, etc.) necessitate the revisit of existing server consolidation solutions due to distin ...

ACM and IEEE Press2013

Towards Privacy-Friendly Online Advertising

Jean-Pierre Hubaux, Julien Freudiger, Nevena Vratonjic

Modern web sites commonly interact with third-party domains to integrate advertisements and generate revenue from them. To improve the relevance of advertisement, online advertisers track user activities online with third- party cookies. However, excessive ...

2009

Purely URL-based Topic Classification

Monika Henzinger, Ingmar Weber, Eda Baykan, Ludmila Marian

Given only the URL of a web page, can we identify its topic? This is the question that we examine in this paper. Usually, web pages are classified using their content, but a URL-only classifier is preferable, (i) when speed is crucial, (ii) to enable conte ...

2009

On the Security of a Popular Web Submission and Review Software (WSaR) for Cryptology Conferences

Most, if not all, conferences use an online system to handle paper submissions and reviews. Introduction of these systems has significantly facilitated the administration, submission and review process compared to traditional paper-based ones. However, it ...

Springer2007

Distributed link-based ranking in P2P Web retrieval

Jie Wu

One of the main differences between modern search engines and traditional ones is the adoption of link-based ranking algorithm in ordering Web documents. Google has claimed that it is its link-based ranking algorithm, PageRank that has made the quality of ...

EPFL2006