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WAPCV
2007
Springer
15 years 3 months ago
A Proto-object Based Visual Attention Model
One of the first steps of any visual system is that of locating suitable interest points, ‘salient regions’, in the scene, to detect events, and eventually to direct gaze towa...
Francesco Orabona, Giorgio Metta, Giulio Sandini
HPDC
2006
IEEE
15 years 3 months ago
Materializing Highly Available Grids
Grids are becoming a mission-critical component in research and industry. The services they provide are thus required to be highly available, contributing to the vision of the Gri...
Mark Silberstein, Gabriel Kliot, Artyom Sharov, As...
SOUPS
2006
ACM
15 years 3 months ago
Intentional access management: making access control usable for end-users
The usability of access control mechanisms in modern distributed systems has been widely criticized but little studied. In this paper, we carefully examine one such widely deploye...
Xiang Cao, Lee Iverson
WOWMOM
2006
ACM
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15 years 3 months ago
MCMSDA: A Multi-Channel Multi-Sector Directional Antenna Wireless LAN
Recently there is an increasing interest in using directional antennas and multi-channel for Ad-hoc wireless networks. Directional antennas provide higher capacity and less multi-...
Yong Huang, Weibo Gong, Dev Gupta
WETICE
2005
IEEE
15 years 3 months ago
Evaluation of an awareness distribution mechanism: A simulation approach
In distributed software engineering, the role of informal communication is frequently overlooked. Participants simply employ their own ad-hoc methods of informal communication. Co...
David Nutter, Cornelia Boldyreff