Abstract--Arbitration and scheduling of multiple tags in stateof-the-art Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) systems is accomplished on the medium access control layer. Currently...
As the number of cores on a single-chip grows, scalable barrier synchronization becomes increasingly difficult to implement. In software implementations, such as the tournament ba...
People routinely rely on Internet search engines to support their use of interactive systems: they issue queries to learn how to accomplish tasks, troubleshoot problems, and other...
XQuery is a powerful functional language to query XML data. This paper presents a bidirectional interpretation of XQuery to address the problem of updating XML data through materi...
A comfort zone is a tested region of a system’s input space within which it has been observed to behave acceptably. To keep systems operating within their comfort zones, we advo...