Relational query optimizers have traditionally relied upon table cardinalities when estimating the cost of the query plans they consider. While this approach has been and continue...
Energy consumption of mobile readers is becoming an important issue as applications of RFID systems pervade different aspects of our lives. Surprisingly, however, these systems ar...
In this paper we present a new framework for specifying access control policies in smart spaces called Criticality-Aware Access Control (CAAC). The main idea is to automatically r...
Sandeep K. S. Gupta, Tridib Mukherjee, Krishna K. ...
Mean-Shift (MS) is a powerful non-parametric clustering method. Although good accuracy can be achieved, its computational cost is particularly expensive even on moderate data sets...
—This paper describes the acceleration of virtual ecology models using field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs). Our approach targets models generated by the Virtual Ecology Workb...