If a mobile computing device knows how it is positioned and oriented in relation to other devices nearby, then it can provide enhanced support for multi-device and multi-user inte...
Mike Hazas, Christian Kray, Hans-Werner Gellersen,...
Abstract-Maintaining optimal consistency in a distributed system requires that nodes be always-on to synchronize information. Unfortunately, mobile devices such as laptops do not h...
Jacob Sorber, Nilanjan Banerjee, Mark D. Corner, S...
Reservoir sampling is a well-known technique for sequential random sampling over data streams. Conventional reservoir sampling assumes a fixed-size reservoir. There are situation...
Mohammed Al-Kateb, Byung Suk Lee, Xiaoyang Sean Wa...
Managing scientific data is a challenging task, and many of the problems it presents have yet to be adequately solved. The Real-time Environmental Information Network and Analysi...
Eric C. Rosen, Theodore R. Haining, Darrell D. E. ...
We introduce a novel combinatorial optimization problem: the one-commodity traveling salesman problem with selective pickup and delivery (1-TSP-SELPD), characterized by the fact th...