142 views139 votes15 years 26 days ago SSDBM 2010»
Skyline queries have attracted considerable attention over the last few years, mainly due to their ability to return interesting objects without the need for user-defined scoring f...
The initiation of interaction in face-to-face environments is a gradual process, and takes place in a rich information landscape of awareness, attention, and social signals. One o...
133 views149 votes15 years 9 months ago SSDBM 2006»
Although the processing of data streams has been the focus of many research efforts in several areas, the case of remotely sensed streams in scientific contexts has received less...
118 views115 votes15 years 8 months ago CIKM 2005»
Web-based third-party architectures for data publishing are today receiving growing attention, due to their scalability and the ability to efficiently manage large numbers of use...
164 views103 votes15 years 8 months ago PLDI 2010»
Single thread performance remains an important consideration even for multicore, multiprocessor systems. As a result, techniques for improving single thread performance using mult...
98 views111 votes15 years 4 months ago IADIS 2003»
This paper is about a web-based system for collaboration and sharing of information among medical professionals. The system, originally targeted for ophthalmologists, has a generi...
128 views148 votes15 years 3 months ago CORR 2008»
The design of sensor networks capable of reaching a consensus on a globally optimal decision test, without the need for a fusion center, is a problem that has received considerable...
As one of the fundamental issues in wireless sensor networks (WSNs), the sensor localization problem has recently received extensive attention. In this work, we investigate this pr...
Delivery of 3D immersive entertainment to the home remains a highly challenging problem due to the large amount of data involved, and the need to support a wide variety of differe...
This paper describes a distribution fitting exercise that has been used in an undergraduate introductory simulation class. The intent is for students to collect data describing a ...