Browsing by Subject "Non-uniform"

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      Finding the K highest-ranked answers in a distributed network 

      Zeinalipour-Yazdi, Constantinos D.; Vagena, Zografoula; Kalogeraki, Vana; Gunopulos, Dimitrios; Tsotras, Vassilis J.; Vlachos, Michail; Koudas, Nick; Srivastava, D. (2009)
      In this paper, we present an algorithm for finding the k highest-ranked (or Top-k) answers in a distributed network. A Top-K query returns the subset of most relevant answers, in place of all answers, for two reasons: (i) ...
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      Online parallel scheduling of non-uniform tasks: Trading failures for energy 

      Fernández Anta, Antonio; Georgiou, Chryssis; Kowalski, D. R.; Zavou, Elli (2015)
      Consider a system in which tasks of different execution times arrive continuously and have to be executed by a set of machines that are prone to crashes and restarts. In this paper we model and study the impact of parallelism ...
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      Online parallel scheduling of non-uniform tasks: Trading failures for energy 

      Fernández Anta, Antonio; Georgiou, Chryssis; Kowalski, D. R.; Zavou, Elli (2013)
      Consider a system in which tasks of different execution times arrive continuously and have to be executed by a set of processors that are prone to crashes and restarts. In this paper we model and study the impact of ...