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2004
ACM
15 years 3 months ago
Compelling experiences in mixed reality interactive storytelling
Entertainment systems promise to be a significant application for Mixed Reality. Recently, a growing number of Mixed Reality applications have included interaction with virtual ac...
Fred Charles, Marc Cavazza, Steven J. Mead, Olivie...
SAC
2004
ACM
15 years 3 months ago
Using mobile agents as roaming security guards to test and improve security of hosts and networks
1 This paper discusses the design and implementation details of MAST (Mobile Agent-based Security Tool), a new mobile agentbased network security approach. MAST has been designed t...
Marco M. Carvalho, Thomas B. Cowin, Niranjan Suri,...
CP
2004
Springer
15 years 3 months ago
How Much Backtracking Does It Take to Color Random Graphs? Rigorous Results on Heavy Tails
Many backtracking algorithms exhibit heavy-tailed distributions, in which their running time is often much longer than their median. We analyze the behavior of two natural variant...
Haixia Jia, Cristopher Moore
CP
2004
Springer
15 years 3 months ago
Understanding Random SAT: Beyond the Clauses-to-Variables Ratio
It is well known that the ratio of the number of clauses to the number of variables in a random k-SAT instance is highly correlated with the instance’s empirical hardness. We con...
Eugene Nudelman, Kevin Leyton-Brown, Holger H. Hoo...
EDBTW
2004
Springer
15 years 3 months ago
Semantic Query Routing and Processing in P2P Database Systems: The ICS-FORTH SQPeer Middleware
Abstract. Peer-to-peer (P2P) computing is currently attracting enormous attention. In P2P systems a very large number of autonomous computing nodes (the peers) pool together their ...
Giorgos Kokkinidis, Vassilis Christophides