Sciweavers

340 search results - page 16 / 68
» A World Model for Smart Spaces
Sort
View
INFOCOM
2000
IEEE
13 years 12 months ago
Adaptive Leases: A Strong Consistency Mechanism for the World Wide Web
—In this paper, we argue that weak cache consistency mechanisms supported by existing Web proxy caches must be augmented by strong consistency mechanisms to support the growing d...
Venkata Duvvuri, Prashant J. Shenoy, Renu Tewari
MVA
1990
13 years 8 months ago
Edge Visibility Regions - A New Representation of the Environment of a Mobile Robot
This paper proposes a novel representation of the free space of mobile robot by distinct, non-overlapping regions called Edge Visibility Regions (EVRs). An algorithm to partition ...
Raj Talluri, J. K. Aggarwal
ATAL
2007
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
Children in the forest: towards a canonical problem of spatio-temporal collaboration
Canonical problems are simplified representations of a class of real world problems. They allow researchers to compare algorithms in a standard setting which captures the most im...
Yi Luo, Ladislau Bölöni
ESORICS
2004
Springer
14 years 27 days ago
Portable and Flexible Document Access Control Mechanisms
We present and analyze portable access control mechanisms for large data repositories, in that the customized access policies are stored on a portable device (e.g., a smart card). ...
Mikhail J. Atallah, Marina Bykova
CIKM
2006
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Incorporating query difference for learning retrieval functions in world wide web search
We discuss information retrieval methods that aim at serving a diverse stream of user queries such as those submitted to commercial search engines. We propose methods that emphasi...
Hongyuan Zha, Zhaohui Zheng, Haoying Fu, Gordon Su...