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ICDCSW
2003
IEEE
15 years 11 months ago
Studying the Use of Handhelds to Control Smart Appliances
Abstract— Today’s complex appliances are plagued by difficultto-use interfaces. In many cases, consumers use only a few of the many features on their appliances because the mor...
Jeffrey Nichols, Brad A. Myers
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GRID
2005
Springer
15 years 11 months ago
Collective operations for wide-area message passing systems using adaptive spanning trees
Abstract— We propose a method for wide-area message passing systems to perform collective operations using dynamically created spanning trees. In our proposal, broadcasts and red...
Hideo Saito, Kenjiro Taura, Takashi Chikayama
ICDCS
2003
IEEE
15 years 11 months ago
Collision Avoidance in Single-Channel Ad Hoc Networks Using Directional Antennas
Three collision-avoidance protocols are analyzed that use omni-directional packet reception together with omnidirectional transmissions, directional transmissions, or a combinatio...
Yu Wang, J. J. Garcia-Luna-Aceves
SPAA
2010
ACM
15 years 6 months ago
Scheduling to minimize power consumption using submodular functions
We develop logarithmic approximation algorithms for extremely general formulations of multiprocessor multiinterval offline task scheduling to minimize power usage. Here each proce...
Erik D. Demaine, Morteza Zadimoghaddam
SPAA
2009
ACM
16 years 6 months ago
On randomized representations of graphs using short labels
Informative labeling schemes consist in labeling the nodes of graphs so that queries regarding any two nodes (e.g., are the two nodes adjacent?) can be answered by inspecting mere...
Pierre Fraigniaud, Amos Korman