Physical database design is important for query performance in a shared-nothing parallel database system, in which data is horizontally partitioned among multiple independent node...
Jun Rao, Chun Zhang, Nimrod Megiddo, Guy M. Lohman
Component-based software development approach is based on the idea to develop software systems by selecting appropriate off-the-shelf components and then to assemble them with a w...
How should a robot represent and reason about spatial information when it needs to collaborate effectively with a human? The form of spatial representation that is useful for robo...
William G. Kennedy, Magdalena D. Bugajska, Matthew...
Matching based on local brightness is quite limited, because
small changes on local appearance invalidate the
constancy in brightness. The root of this limitation is its
treatme...
Ying Wu (Northwestern University), Jialue Fan (Nor...
— Many applications that make use of sensor networks require secure communication. Because asymmetric-key solutions are difficult to implement in such a resource-constrained env...
Patrick Traynor, Heesook Choi, Guohong Cao, Sencun...