Most research on Distributed Hash Tables (DHTs) assumes ephemeral, lightly loaded deployments. Each node has a lifetime of a few hours and initiates a lookup once every few second...
The temporal elements of users’ information requirements are a continually confounding aspect of digital library design. No sooner have users’ needs been identified and suppor...
Abstract. Given an image, digital matting consists in extracting a foreground element from the background. Standard methods are initialized with a trimap, a partition of the image ...
We describe the current status of and provide performance results for a prototype compiler of Prolog to C, ciaocc. ciaocc is novel in that it is designed to accept different kinds...
Pleo is one of the more advanced interactive toys currently available for the home market, taking the form of a robotic dinosaur. We present an exploratory study of how it was int...