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CAAN
2006
Springer
15 years 9 months ago
Distributed Routing in Tree Networks with Few Landmarks
We consider the problem of finding a short path between any two nodes of a network when no global information is available, nor any oracle to help in routing. A mobile agent, situa...
Ioannis Z. Emiris, Euripides Markou, Aris Pagourtz...
CHI
2004
ACM
16 years 6 months ago
Pointing without a pointer
We present a method for performing selection tasks based on continuous control of multiple, competing agents who try to determine the user's intentions from their control beh...
John Williamson, Roderick Murray-Smith
SIGMOD
2008
ACM
140views Database» more  SIGMOD 2008»
16 years 6 months ago
Skippy: a new snapshot indexing method for time travel in the storage manager
The storage manager of a general-purpose database system can retain consistent disk page level snapshots and run application programs "back-in-time" against long-lived p...
Ross Shaull, Liuba Shrira, Hao Xu
MOBIQUITOUS
2007
IEEE
16 years 7 days ago
TRULLO - local trust bootstrapping for ubiquitous devices
—Handheld devices have become sufficiently powerful that it is easy to create, disseminate, and access digital content (e.g., photos, videos) using them. The volume of such cont...
Daniele Quercia, Stephen Hailes, Licia Capra
EDBT
2008
ACM
128views Database» more  EDBT 2008»
16 years 6 months ago
Processing transitive nearest-neighbor queries in multi-channel access environments
Wireless broadcast is an efficient way for information dissemination due to its good scalability [10]. Existing works typically assume mobile devices, such as cell phones and PDAs...
Xiao Zhang, Wang-Chien Lee, Prasenjit Mitra, Baihu...