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GIS
2010
ACM
13 years 7 months ago
Using location based social networks for quality-aware participatory data transfer
The sensing systems that monitor physical environments rely on communication infrastructures (wired or wireless) to collect data from the sensors embedded in the environment. Howe...
Houtan Shirani-Mehr, Farnoush Banaei Kashani, Cyru...
APIN
1998
132views more  APIN 1998»
13 years 8 months ago
Evolution-Based Methods for Selecting Point Data for Object Localization: Applications to Computer-Assisted Surgery
Object localization has applications in many areas of engineering and science. The goal is to spatially locate an arbitrarily-shaped object. In many applications, it is desirable ...
Shumeet Baluja, David Simon
FSR
2003
Springer
251views Robotics» more  FSR 2003»
14 years 2 months ago
Distributed Search and Rescue with Robot and Sensor Teams
We develop a network of distributed mobile sensor systems as a solution to the emergency response problem. The mobile sensors are inside a building and they form a connected ad-ho...
George Kantor, Sanjiv Singh, Ronald A. Peterson, D...
ATAL
2003
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
Cooperative negotiation for soft real-time distributed resource allocation
In this paper we present a cooperative negotiation protocol that solves a distributed resource allocation problem while conforming to soft real-time constraints in a dynamic envir...
Roger Mailler, Victor R. Lesser, Bryan Horling
ICDE
2009
IEEE
140views Database» more  ICDE 2009»
14 years 10 months ago
Predicting Multiple Metrics for Queries: Better Decisions Enabled by Machine Learning
One of the most challenging aspects of managing a very large data warehouse is identifying how queries will behave before they start executing. Yet knowing their performance charac...
Archana Ganapathi, Harumi A. Kuno, Umeshwar Dayal,...