Application-layer overlay networks have recently emerged as a promising solution for live media multicast on the Internet. A tree is probably the most natural structure for a mult...
Wireless ad hoc networks consist of hundreds to thousands of mobile nodes that are powered by batteries. To prolong the network operational time, energy conservation in such netwo...
A top-k query combines different rankings of the same set of objects and returns the k objects with the highest combined score according to an aggregate function. We bring to ligh...
Nikos Mamoulis, Kit Hung Cheng, Man Lung Yiu, Davi...
Shaving and constructive disjunction are two main refutation principles used in constraint programming. The shaving principle allows us to compute the singleton arc-consistency (SA...
Speech has great potential as an input mechanism for ubiquitous computing. However, the current requirements necessary for accurate speech recognition, such as a quiet environment...
Katherine Everitt, Susumu Harada, Jeff A. Bilmes, ...