—Recent years have witnessed the deployments of wireless sensor networks in a class of mission-critical applications such as object detection and tracking. These applications oft...
—We introduce the concept of a Visual Backchannel as a novel way of following and exploring online conversations about large-scale events. Microblogging communities, such as Twit...
Recurrent event queries (REQ) constitute a special class of search queries occurring at regular, predictable time intervals. The freshness of documents ranked for such queries is ...
Clock skew minimization has been an important design constraint. However, due to the complexity of Process, Voltage, and Temperature (PVT) variations, the minimization of clock sk...
Abstract--The lag of parallel programming models and languages behind the advance of heterogeneous many-core processors has left a gap between the computational capability of moder...