Real-scale Semantic Web applications, such as Knowledge Portals and E-Marketplaces, require the managementof large volumes of metadata, i.e., information describing the available ...
Gregory Karvounarakis, Sofia Alexaki, Vassilis Chr...
Dining philosophers is a classic scheduling problem for local mutual exclusion on arbitrary conflict graphs. We establish necessary conditions to solve wait-free dining under even...
Top end mobile phones include a number of specialized (e.g., accelerometer, compass, GPS) and general purpose sensors (e.g., microphone, camera) that enable new people-centric sen...
Hong Lu, Wei Pan, Nicholas D. Lane, Tanzeem Choudh...
Routing is one of the most challenging open problems in disruption-tolerant networks (DTNs) because of the shortlived wireless connectivity environment. To deal with this issue, r...
This paper addresses the repeated acquisition of labels for data items when the labeling is imperfect. We examine the improvement (or lack thereof) in data quality via repeated la...
Victor S. Sheng, Foster J. Provost, Panagiotis G. ...