As people accumulate hundreds of “friends” in social media, a flat list of connections becomes unmanageable. Interfaces agnostic to social structure hinder the nuanced sharin...
Diana MacLean, Sudheendra Hangal, Seng Keat Teh, M...
Abstract This paper deals with the problem of mobile-robot localization in structured environments. The extended Kalman filter (EKF) is used to localize the fourwheeled mobile robo...
We study the problem of context-sensitive ranking for document retrieval, where a context is defined as a sub-collection of documents, and is specified by queries provided by do...
Considering a broad definition for service contracts (beyond web services and software, e.g. airline tickets and insurance policies), we tackle the challenges of building a high ...
We address the problem of making online, parallel query plans fault-tolerant: i.e., provide intra-query fault-tolerance without blocking. We develop an approach that not only achi...