This paper is concerned with reducing communication costs when executing distributed user tasks in a sensor network. We take a service-oriented abstraction of sensor networks, whe...
Data partitioning is often used to scale-up a database system. In a centralized database system, the serialization order of commited update transactions can be inferred from the d...
The main function of a continuous media server is to concurrently stream data from storage to multiple clients over a network. The resulting streams will congest the host CPU bus,...
We define the task of incremental or 0lag utterance segmentation, that is, the task of segmenting an ongoing speech recognition stream into utterance units, and present first resu...
Water is our most precious and most rapidly declining natural resource. We explore pervasive technology as an approach for promoting water conservation in public and private space...