Existing work in the skyline literature focuses on optimizing the processing cost. This paper aims at minimization of the communication overhead in client-server architectures, wh...
Sampling is a popular method of data collection when it is impossible or too costly to reach the entire population. For example, television show ratings in the United States are g...
Real-world data -- especially when generated by distributed measurement infrastructures such as sensor networks -- tends to be incomplete, imprecise, and erroneous, making it impo...
The widespread distribution and availability of smallscale sensors, actuators, and embedded processors is transforming the physical world into a computing platform. One such examp...
In this paper we propose an attention-based vision system for the JAST interactive dialog robot. The robotic vision system incorporates three submodules: object recognition, gestu...