Networked Virtual Environments (NVEs) are computer generated, synthetic worlds that allow simultaneous interactions of multiple participants. IP multicast and application layer mu...
A low-distortion embedding between two metric spaces is a mapping which preserves the distances between each pair of points, up to a small factor called distortion. Low-distortion...
Mihai Badoiu, Julia Chuzhoy, Piotr Indyk, Anastasi...
tigate the use of temporally abstract actions, or macro-actions, in the solution of Markov decision processes. Unlike current models that combine both primitive actions and macro-...
Milos Hauskrecht, Nicolas Meuleau, Leslie Pack Kae...
The problem we address in this paper is how to detect an intruder moving through a polygonal space that is equipped with a camera sensor network. We propose a probabilistic sensor ...
In this paper, we provide a method to safely store a document in perhaps the most challenging settings, a highly decentralized replicated storage system where up to half of the st...
Noga Alon, Haim Kaplan, Michael Krivelevich, Dahli...