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Image retrieval: Current techniques, promising directions and open issues
- Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation
, 1999
"... This paper provides a comprehensive survey of the technical achievements in the research area of image retrieval, especially content-based image retrieval, an area that has been so active and prosperous in the past few years. The survey includes 100+ papers covering the research aspects of image fea ..."
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This paper provides a comprehensive survey of the technical achievements in the research area of image retrieval, especially content-based image retrieval, an area that has been so active and prosperous in the past few years. The survey includes 100+ papers covering the research aspects of image
GPFS: A Shared-Disk File System for Large Computing Clusters
- In Proceedings of the 2002 Conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST
, 2002
"... GPFS is IBM's parallel, shared-disk file system for cluster computers, available on the RS/6000 SP parallel supercomputer and on Linux clusters. GPFS is used on many of the largest supercomputers in the world. GPFS was built on many of the ideas that were developed in the academic community ove ..."
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GPFS is IBM's parallel, shared-disk file system for cluster computers, available on the RS/6000 SP parallel supercomputer and on Linux clusters. GPFS is used on many of the largest supercomputers in the world. GPFS was built on many of the ideas that were developed in the academic community
Inflation and Growth
, 1996
"... In recent years, many central banks have placed increased emphasis on price stability. Monetary policyâwhether expressed in terms of interest rates or growth of monetary aggregatesâhas been increasingly geared toward the achievement of low and stable inflation. Central bankers and most other obs ..."
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In recent years, many central banks have placed increased emphasis on price stability. Monetary policyâwhether expressed in terms of interest rates or growth of monetary aggregatesâhas been increasingly geared toward the achievement of low and stable inflation. Central bankers and most other
The anatomy of a large-scale hypertextual web search engine.
- Comput. Netw. ISDN Syst.,
, 1998
"... Abstract In this paper, we present Google, a prototype of a large-scale search engine which makes heavy use of the structure present in hypertext. Google is designed to crawl and index the Web efficiently and produce much more satisfying search results than existing systems. The prototype with a fu ..."
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of queries every day. Despite the importance of large-scale search engines on the web, very little academic research has been done on them. Furthermore, due to rapid advance in technology and web proliferation, creating a web search engine today is very different from three years ago. This paper provides
Web Server Workload Characterization: The Search for Invariants (Extended Version)
, 1996
"... The phenomenal growth in popularity of the World Wide Web (WWW, or the Web) has made WWW traffic the largest contributor to packet and byte traffic on the NSFNET backbone. This growth has triggered recent research aimed at reducing the volume of network traffic produced by Web clients and servers, b ..."
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are used in this study: three from academic environments, two from scientific research organizations, and one from a commercial Internet provider. These data sets represent three different orders of magnitude in server activity, and two different orders of magnitude in time duration, ranging from one week
The eucalyptus open-source cloud-computing system
- In Proceedings of Cloud Computing and Its Applications [Online
"... Cloud computing systems fundamentally provide access to large pools of data and computational resources through a variety of interfaces similar in spirit to existing grid and HPC resource management and programming systems. These types of systems offer a new programming target for scalable applicati ..."
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application developers and have gained popularity over the past few years. However, most cloud computing systems in operation today are proprietary, rely upon infrastructure that is invisible to the research community, or are not explicitly designed to be instrumented and modified by systems researchers
A resource-based perspective on corporate environmental performance and profitability
- Acad. Management J
, 1997
"... Drawing on the resource-based view of the firm, we posited that environmental performance and economic performance are positively linked and that industry growth moderates the relationship, with the returns to environmental performance higher in high-growth industries. We tested these hypotheses wit ..."
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with an analysis of 243 firms over two years, using independently developed environmental ratings. Results indicate that "it pays to be green " and that this relationship strengthens with industry growth. We conclude by highlighting the study's academic and managerial implications, making special
Internet web servers: Workload characterization and performance implications
- IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking
, 1997
"... This paper presents a workload characterization study for Internet Web servers. Six different data sets are used in the study: three from academic environments, two from scientific research organizations, and one from a commercial Internet provider. These data sets represent three different orders o ..."
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This paper presents a workload characterization study for Internet Web servers. Six different data sets are used in the study: three from academic environments, two from scientific research organizations, and one from a commercial Internet provider. These data sets represent three different orders
Mutual fund performance: An empirical decomposition into stockpicking talent, style, transactions costs, and expenses
- Journal of Finance
, 2000
"... We use a new database to perform a comprehensive analysis of the mutual fund industry. We find that funds hold stocks that outperform the market by 1.3 percent per year, but their net returns underperform by one percent. Of the 2.3 percent difference between these results, 0.7 percent is due to the ..."
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We use a new database to perform a comprehensive analysis of the mutual fund industry. We find that funds hold stocks that outperform the market by 1.3 percent per year, but their net returns underperform by one percent. Of the 2.3 percent difference between these results, 0.7 percent is due
Imagined Communities: Awareness, Information Sharing, and Privacy on the Facebook
, 2006
"... Online social networks such as Friendster, MySpace, or the Facebook have experienced exponential growth in membership in recent years. These networks offer attractive means for interaction and communication, but also raise privacy and security concerns. In this study we survey a representative sampl ..."
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Cited by 272 (4 self)
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Online social networks such as Friendster, MySpace, or the Facebook have experienced exponential growth in membership in recent years. These networks offer attractive means for interaction and communication, but also raise privacy and security concerns. In this study we survey a representative
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