161 views153 votes15 years 5 months ago SIGCSE 2008»
Research experiences for undergraduates are considered an effective means for increasing student retention and encouraging undergraduate students to continue on to graduate school...
Abstract. Approximate Mean Value Analysis (MVA) is a popular technique for analyzing queueing networks because of the efficiency and accuracy that it affords. In this paper, we pre...
112 views136 votes15 years 11 months ago AINA 2008»
When traditional firewall and intrusion detection systems (IDS) are used to detect possible attacks from the network, they often make wrong decisions and block the legitimate conn...
Historically, visual display has always played a very important role in GIS applications. However, visual exploration tools do not scale well when applied to huge spatial data sets...
476 views173 votes15 years 12 months ago WEA 2010»
We improve on earlier FPT algorithms for computing a rooted maximum agreement forest (MAF) or a maximum acyclic agreement forest (MAAF) of a pair of phylogenetic trees. Their sizes...
This paper presents a large scale (N 101) exploratory relational study of computer gamers' gaming habits and their presence experiences. The study posited and examined the ef...
151 views136 votes15 years 6 months ago SWAP 2008»
The traditional strategy performed by Information Retrieval (IR) systems is ranked keyword search: for a given query, a list of documents, ordered by relevance, is returned. Releva...
176 views184 votes14 years 12 months ago TKDE 2011»
—This paper proposes a new strategy, the experience transfer, to facilitate the management of large-scale computing systems. It deals with the utilization of management experienc...
We present RoCo, the first robotic computer designed with the ability to move its monitor in subtly expressive ways that respond to and encourage its user's own postural move...
144 views125 votes15 years 6 months ago NIPS 2007»
Brain-computer interfaces (BCIs), as any other interaction modality based on physiological signals and body channels (e.g., muscular activity, speech and gestures), are prone to e...