Most utility installed energy meters are primarily intended to support a utility's billing function. They report only the aggregate energy consumption of a home or business o...
Jon Froehlich, Eric Larson, Sidhant Gupta, Gabe Co...
We put forward a general theory of goal-oriented communication, where communication is not an end in itself, but rather a means to achieving some goals of the communicating partie...
We propose a cooperative methodology for multithreaded software, where threads use traditional synchronization idioms such as locks, but additionally document each point of potent...
Information resources on the Web like videos, images, and documents are increasingly becoming more “social” through user engagement via commenting systems. These commenting sy...
Predicting human occupations in photos has great application potentials in intelligent services and systems. However, using traditional classification methods cannot reliably dis...