—When a user is in close proximity to a robot, physical contact becomes a potentially valuable channel for communication. People often use direct physical contact to guide a pers...
When users wish to establish wireless communication between their devices, the channel needs to be bootstrapped first. Usually, the channel is desired to be authenticated and con...
There has been a significant increase in interest and participation in social networking websites recently. For many users, social networks are indispensable tools for sharing pe...
The strength of GIS is in providing a rich data infrastructure for combining disparate data in meaningful ways by using a spatial arrangement (e.g., proximity). As a toolbox, a GI...
It is well known that fill insertion adversely affects total and coupling capacitance of interconnects. While grounded fill can be extracted by full-chip extractors, floating ...