Social robots have to potential to serve as personal, organizational, and public assistants as, for instance, diet coaches, teacher’s aides, and emergency respondents. The succe...
This paper proposes a resilient, alternative monetary system on the Internet called i-WAT, based on WAT System[1] which uses a form of promissory note as the medium of exchanging g...
Event-driven systems are used in a wide range of applications such as responding to missile attacks, interdicting potential terrorists, exploiting arbitrage opportunities and resp...
K. Mani Chandy, Michel Charpentier, Agostino Cappo...
We present Schism, a novel workload-aware approach for database partitioning and replication designed to improve scalability of sharednothing distributed databases. Because distri...
Carlo Curino, Yang Zhang, Evan P. C. Jones, Samuel...
Research in context-aware computing has produced a number of application prototypes, frameworks, middlewares and models for describing context. However, development of ubiquitous ...