To seamlessly integrate into the human physical and social environment, robots must display appropriate proxemic behavior—that is, follow societal norms in establishing their ph...
Operators of 3G data networks need to distinguish the performance of each geographic area in their 3G networks to detect and resolve local network problems. This is because the qu...
Hadoop has become an attractive platform for large-scale data analytics. In this paper, we identify a major performance bottleneck of Hadoop: its lack of ability to colocate relat...
Adaptive indexing is characterized by the partial creation and refinement of the index as side effects of query execution. Dynamic or shifting workloads may benefit from prelimi...
Stratos Idreos, Stefan Manegold, Harumi A. Kuno, G...
The fact that the heat equation is controllable to zero in any bounded domain of the euclidean space, any time T > 0 and from any open subset of the boundary is well known. On ...