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CHI
2001
ACM
16 years 5 days ago
Listen reader: an electronically augmented paper-based book
While predictions abound that electronic books will supplant traditional paper-based books, many people bemoan the coming loss of the book as cultural artifact. In this project we...
Maribeth Back, Jonathan Cohen, Rich Gold, Steve R....
SIGMOD
2005
ACM
154views Database» more  SIGMOD 2005»
15 years 12 months ago
Lazy XML Updates: Laziness as a Virtue of Update and Structural Join Efficiency
XML documents are normally stored as plain text files. Hence, the natural and most convenient way to update XML documents is to simply edit the text files. But efficient query eva...
Barbara Catania, Wen Qiang Wang, Beng Chin Ooi, Xi...
IAT
2009
IEEE
15 years 6 months ago
Cluster-Swap: A Distributed K-median Algorithm for Sensor Networks
In building practical sensor networks, it is often beneficial to use only a subset of sensors to take measurements because of computational, communication, and power limitations....
Yoonheui Kim, Victor R. Lesser, Deepak Ganesan, Ra...
ICRA
2009
IEEE
151views Robotics» more  ICRA 2009»
15 years 6 months ago
Probabilistic estimation of Multi-Level terrain maps
— Recent research has shown that robots can model their world with Multi-Level (ML) surface maps, which utilize ‘patches’ in a 2D grid space to represent various environment ...
Cesar Rivadeneyra, Isaac Miller, Jonathan R. Schoe...
ICPPW
2008
IEEE
15 years 6 months ago
Energy Modeling of Processors in Wireless Sensor Networks Based on Petri Nets
Power minimization is a serious issue in wireless sensor networks to extend the lifetime and minimize costs. However, in order to gain an accurate understanding of issues regardin...
Ali Shareef, Yifeng Zhu