For wearable computing applications, human activity is a central part of the user’s context. In order to avoid user annoyance it should be acquired automatically using body-worn ...
Many dramatizations have depicted a fully automated home living environment, where actions and events are understood or even anticipated. While the realization of such environment...
Reliable multicast requires that all packets are safely delivered to the destinations. Such communication patterns are intensively used in the so-called grid computing infrastructu...
Multiparty computation protocols have been known for more than twenty years now, but due to their lack of efficiency their use is still limited in real-world applications: the goal...
The design challenge for large-scale multiprocessors is (1) to minimize communication overhead, (2) allow communication to overlap computation, and (3) coordinate the two without ...
Thorsten von Eicken, David E. Culler, Seth Copen G...