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SPAA
2004
ACM
15 years 7 months ago
On achieving optimized capacity utilization in application overlay networks with multiple competing sessions
In this paper, we examine the problem of large-volume data dissemination via overlay networks. A natural way to maximize the throughput of an overlay multicast session is to split...
Yi Cui, Baochun Li, Klara Nahrstedt
RSS
2007
176views Robotics» more  RSS 2007»
15 years 3 months ago
Active Policy Learning for Robot Planning and Exploration under Uncertainty
Abstract— This paper proposes a simulation-based active policy learning algorithm for finite-horizon, partially-observed sequential decision processes. The algorithm is tested i...
Ruben Martinez-Cantin, Nando de Freitas, Arnaud Do...
EUROSYS
2006
ACM
15 years 10 months ago
Experiences in building and operating ePOST, a reliable peer-to-peer application
Peer-to-peer (p2p) technology can potentially be used to build highly reliable applications without a single point of failure. However, most of the existing applications, such as ...
Alan Mislove, Ansley Post, Andreas Haeberlen, Pete...

Publication
402views
17 years 5 days ago
Geometric Broadcast Protocol for Heterogeneous Wireless Networks
We present Geometric Broadcast for Heterogeneous Sensor Networks (GBS), a novel broad- casting protocol for heterogeneous wireless sensor and actor networks. While broadcasting is ...
V. Paruchuri, A. Durresi, Raj Jain
CVPR
2007
IEEE
16 years 3 months ago
Learning to Detect A Salient Object
We study visual attention by detecting a salient object in an input image. We formulate salient object detection as an image segmentation problem, where we separate the salient obj...
Tie Liu, Jian Sun, Nanning Zheng, Xiaoou Tang, Heu...