One method of viral marketing involves seeding certain consumers within a population to encourage faster adoption of the product throughout the entire population. However, determi...
Material design is the process by which artists specify the reflectance
properties of a surface, such as its diffuse color and specular
roughness. We present a user study to eval...
ln the future, wireless networking will be embedded into a wide variety of common, everyday objects [1]. In many embedded networking situations, the communicating nodes will be ver...
This paper attempts to articulate the general role of infrastructure for multi-agent systems (MAS), and why infrastructure is a particularly critical issue if we are to increase th...
Private information retrieval (PIR) enables a user to retrieve a data item from a database, replicated among one or more servers, while hiding the identity of the retrieved item. ...