Abstract— Active cannulas are remotely actuated thin continuum robots with the potential to traverse narrow and winding environments without relying on “guiding” environmenta...
Robert J. Webster III, Joseph M. Romano, Noah J. C...
—We recently proposed the Rate Control Protocol (RCP) as a way to minimize download times (or flow-completion times). Simulations suggest that if RCP were widely deployed, downl...
While information retrieval (IR) and databases (DB) have been developed independently, there have been emerging requirements that both data management and efficient text retrieva...
Jinsuk Kim, Du-Seok Jin, Yunsoo Choi, Chang-Hoo Je...
This paper investigates randomization and replication as strategies to achieve reliable performance in disk arrays targeted for video-on-demand (VoD) workloads. A disk array can p...
Decentralized Markov Decision Processes (DEC-MDPs) are a popular model of agent-coordination problems in domains with uncertainty and time constraints but very difficult to solve...