— Recent biological research suggests that reliable, agile climbing on smooth vertical surfaces requires controllable adhesion. In nature, geckos control adhesion by properly loa...
Daniel Santos, Sangbae Kim, Matthew Spenko, Aaron ...
In this paper, we consider a new inventory control technique for large-scale supply chains including repairs. The part flow is bidirectional with broken parts propagated upstream f...
Prashanth Krishnamurthy, Farshad Khorrami, David A...
Privacy is considered critical for all organizations needing to manage individual related information. As such, there is an increasing need for access control models which can adeq...
Hypertext-based user interfaces have become attractive for many distributed applications today, but they do not reach the usability level of window-based UIs. Because of insuffici...
Currently, only few XML data management systems support concurrent access to an XML document, and if they do, they typically apply variations of hierarchical locking to handle XML...