Soft biometric traits like gender, age, height, weight, ethnicity, and eye color cannot provide reliable user recognition because they are not distinctive and permanent. However, s...
Anil K. Jain, Karthik Nandakumar, Xiaoguang Lu, Un...
This paper addresses the energy consumption of forward error correction (FEC) protocols as used to improve quality-of-service (QoS) for wireless computing devices. The paper also ...
Zhinan Zhou, Philip K. McKinley, Seyed Masoud Sadj...
Process skew is an important factor in the performance of parallel applications, especially in large-scale clusters. Reduction is a common collective operation which, by its natur...
Adam Wagner, Darius Buntinas, Dhabaleswar K. Panda...
This paper presents a distributed algorithm called LREMiT for extending the lifetime of a source-based multicast tree in wireless ad hoc networks (WANET). The lifetime of a multic...
Guidebots, or animated pedagogical agents, can enhance interactive learning environments by promoting deeper learning and improve the learner's subjective experience. Guidebo...