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CHI
2010
ACM
15 years 11 months ago
UpStream: motivating water conservation with low-cost water flow sensing and persuasive displays
Water is our most precious and most rapidly declining natural resource. We explore pervasive technology as an approach for promoting water conservation in public and private space...
Stacey Kuznetsov, Eric Paulos
WADS
2009
Springer
245views Algorithms» more  WADS 2009»
15 years 11 months ago
Online Square Packing
We analyze the problem of packing squares in an online fashion: Given an semi-infinite strip of width 1 and an unknown sequence of squares with side lengths in [0, 1] that arrive...
Sándor P. Fekete, Tom Kamphans, Nils Schwee...
ICB
2009
Springer
355views Biometrics» more  ICB 2009»
15 years 11 months ago
3D Signatures for Fast 3D Face Recognition
We propose a vector representation (called a 3D signature) for 3D face shape in biometrics applications. Elements of the vector correspond to fixed surface points in a face-centere...
Chris Boehnen, Tanya Peters, Patrick J. Flynn
DSN
2008
IEEE
15 years 11 months ago
Scheduling for performance and availability in systems with temporal dependent workloads
Temporal locality in workloads creates conditions in which a server, in order to remain available, should quickly process bursts of requests with large service requirements. In th...
Ningfang Mi, Giuliano Casale, Evgenia Smirni
ICCCN
2008
IEEE
15 years 11 months ago
Control Message Reduction Techniques in Backward Learning Ad Hoc Routing Protocols
—Most existing wireless ad hoc routing protocols rely upon the use of backward learning technique with explicit control messages to route packets. In this paper we propose a set ...
Navodaya Garepalli, Kartik Gopalan, Ping Yang