We design an incentive-compatible mechanism for scheduling n non-malleable parallel jobs on a parallel system comprising m identical processors. Each job is owned by a selfish us...
The hardware infrastructure that provides the support of ubiquitous embedded computing may be shared by different applications. Many of those applications have real-time requireme...
In contextual computing, where cues beyond direct user input are used to trigger computation, one of the most daunting challenges is inferring what the user is doing. For the doma...
Victoria Bellotti, Jim Thornton, Alvin Chin, Diane...
Surface-embedded passive radio frequency (PRF) exteroception is a method whereby an action to be executed by a mobile unit is selected through a signal received from a surface-embe...
Vladimir A. Kulyukin, Aliasgar Kutiyanawala, Mingh...
Content analysis of video and still images is attractive for multiple reasons, such as enabling content-based actions and image manipulation. This paper presents a new algorithm an...