Pervasive robotics will require, in a near future, small, light and cheap robots that exhibit complex behaviors. These demands led to the development of the M2-M4 Macaco project -...
Minimizing power consumption is vitally important in embedded system design; power consumption determines battery lifespan. Ultralow-power designs may even permit embedded systems...
Changyun Zhu, Zhenyu (Peter) Gu, Li Shang, Robert ...
Benchmarks are crucial to understanding software systems and assessing their performance. In file-system research, synthetic benchmarks are accepted and widely used as substitutes...
Nitin Agrawal, Andrea C. Arpaci-Dusseau, Remzi H. ...
Lately the advances in centralized database management systems show a trend towards supporting rank-aware query operators, like top-k, that enable users to retrieve only the most ...
The growing importance of access control has led to the definition of numerous languages for specifying policies. Since these languages are based on different foundations, langua...