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MSS
1999
IEEE
121views Hardware» more  MSS 1999»
15 years 8 months ago
Device Locks: Mutual Exclusion for Storage Area Networks
Device Locks are mechanisms used in distributed environments to facilitate mutual exclusion of shared resources. They can further be used to maintain coherence of data that is cac...
Kenneth W. Preslan, Steven R. Soltis, Christopher ...
MONET
2006
170views more  MONET 2006»
15 years 4 months ago
Decentralized Utility-based Sensor Network Design
Wireless sensor networks consist of energy-constrained sensor nodes operating unattended in highly dynamic environments. In this paper, we advocate a systematic decentralized appro...
Narayanan Sadagopan, Mitali Singh, Bhaskar Krishna...
SIGMOD
1998
ACM
121views Database» more  SIGMOD 1998»
15 years 8 months ago
New Sampling-Based Summary Statistics for Improving Approximate Query Answers
In large data recording and warehousing environments, it is often advantageous to provide fast, approximate answers to queries, whenever possible. Before DBMSs providing highly-ac...
Phillip B. Gibbons, Yossi Matias
ICPR
2006
IEEE
16 years 5 months ago
Robust Tracking of Multiple People in Crowds Using Laser Range Scanners
Laser based people tracking systems have been developed for mobile robotic or intelligent surveillance areas. Existing systems rely on laser point clustering to extract object loc...
Jinshi Cui, Hongbin Zha, Huijing Zhao, Ryosuke Shi...
TELECARE
2004
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15 years 5 months ago
Federated management of information for TeleCARE
Distributed information management plays a fundamental role within the base infrastructure supporting the elderly care domain. Specificities of this domain include the autonomy and...
Hamideh Afsarmanesh, Víctor Guevara-Mas&iac...