Recent work on BitTorrent swarms has demonstrated that a bandwidth bottleneck at the seed can lead to the underutilization of the aggregate swarm capacity. Bandwidth underutilizat...
We present an interactive virtual percussion instrument system, Tabletop Ensemble, that can be used by a group of collaborative users simultaneously to emulate playing music in re...
Zhimin Ren, Ravish Mehra, Jason Coposky, Ming C. L...
In object oriented database management systems, clustering has proven to be one of the most effective performance enhancement techniques. Existing clustering algorithms are mainly...
Zhen He, Richard Lai, Alonso Marquez, Stephen Blac...
Background: Cellular metabolism is one of the most investigated system of biological interactions. While the topological nature of individual reactions and pathways in the network...
The visual effects of rain are complex. Rain produces sharp intensity changes in images and videos that can severely impair the performance of outdoor vision systems. In this paper...