Many programs exploit shared-memory parallelism using multithreading. Threaded codes typically use locks to coordinate access to shared data. In many cases, contention for locks r...
Nathan R. Tallent, John M. Mellor-Crummey, Allan P...
—Wireless sensor networks enable large amount of surveillance applications especially for critical and even hostile environments, for example, the sea monitoring. In OceanSense, ...
Kebin Liu, Zheng Yang, Mo Li, Zhongwen Guo, Ying G...
— The data management community has recently begun to consider declarative network routing and distributed acquisition: e.g., sensor networks that execute queries about contiguou...
Mengmeng Liu, Nicholas E. Taylor, Wenchao Zhou, Za...
—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...