To realize the potential of opportunistic and participatory sensing using mobile smartphones, a key challenge is ensuring the ease of developing and deploying such applications, w...
Tathagata Das, Prashanth Mohan, Venkata N. Padmana...
Abstract. We explore a new general-purpose heuristic for nding highquality solutions to hard optimization problems. The method, called extremal optimization, is inspired by self-or...
Stefan Boettcher, Allon G. Percus, Michelangelo Gr...
In this paper, we take the idea of application-level processing on disks to one level further, and focus on an architecture, called Cluster of Active Disks (CAD), where the storag...
The deluge of huge data sets such as those provided by
sensor networks, online transactions, and the web provide
exciting opportunities for data analysis. The scale of the
data ...
Wireless sensor networks (WSN) consist of small self-contained devices with computational, sensing and wireless communication capabilities. They allow flexible, powerful, tetherles...