Abstract. Pyroelectric sensors can detect changes of infrared rays. Usually, typical pyroelectric sensors are the digital output type, used for lighting switches and security syste...
Peer-to-peer computing paradigm is emerging as a scalable and robust model for sharing media objects. In this paper, we propose an architecture and describe the associated algorit...
High-level query languages are an attractive interface for sensor networks, potentially relieving application programmers from the burdens of distributed, embedded programming. In ...
Joseph M. Hellerstein, Wei Hong, Samuel Madden, Ky...
Mobile phones have two sensors: a camera and a microphone. The widespread and ubiquitous nature of mobile phones around the world makes it attractive to build a large-scale sensor...
The World Wide Web lacks support for explaining information provenance. When web applications return results, many users do not know what information sources were used, when they ...