Traditional automata accept or reject their input, and are therefore Boolean. In contrast, weighted automata map each word to a value from a semiring over a large domain. The speci...
Pointing gestures are a common and intuitive way to draw somebody’s attention to a certain object. While humans can easily interpret robot gestures, the perception of human beha...
In this paper, we construct a price index for broadband services in the United States between 2004 and 2009. We analyze over 1500 service contracts offered by DSL and cable provid...
Abstract—By ‘optimal CSMA’ we denote a promising approach to maximize throughput-based utility in wireless networks without message passing or synchronization among nodes. De...
Bruno Nardelli, Jinsung Lee, Kangwook Lee, Yung Yi...
Buildings are known to be the largest consumers of electricity in the United States, and often times the dominant energy consumer is the HVAC system. Despite this fact, in most bu...