—Cooperative spectrum sensing is attracting more attention in Cognitive Radio networks. This paper proposes a fully distributed consensus-based cooperative spectrum sensing schem...
We investigate the verbal and nonverbal means for grounding, and propose a design for embodied conversational agents that relies on both kinds of signals to establish common groun...
The assessment of the influence of individual observations on the outcome of the analysis by perturbation has received a lot of attention for situations in which the observations ...
174 views144 votes15 years 9 months ago ICMCS 2006»
In this paper, we propose a probabilistic model for web image mining, which is based on concept-sensitive salient regions without human intervene. Our goal is to achieve a middle-...
The Italian particle ne exhibits interesting anaphoric properties that have not been yet explored in depth from a corpus and computational linguistic perspective. We provide: (i) ...
183 views136 votes15 years 22 days ago ICMCS 2009»
The next-generation social communication medium, teleimmersion, is receiving increasing attention from both the research and industrial communities. It enables interaction between...
148 views130 votes15 years 6 months ago ETRICS 2006»
Recommender systems are widely used to help deal with the problem of information overload. However, recommenders raise serious privacy and security issues. The personal information...
Epidemics-inspired techniques have received huge attention in recent years from the distributed systems and networking communities. These algorithms and protocols rely on probabili...
131 views118 votes15 years 6 months ago EDOC 2004»
As the Internet, intranets and other wide-area open networks grow, novel techniques for building distributed systems, notably mobile agents, are attracting increasing attention. T...
113 views120 votes15 years 4 months ago WOTUG 2008»
Abstract. Distributing process-oriented programs across a cluster of machines requires careful attention to the effects of network latency. The MPI standard, widely used for cluste...