We propose the first systematic, sensor-centric approach for quantitative design of sensor network appliances. We demonstrate its use by designing light appliance devices and the ...
Jennifer L. Wong, Seapahn Megerian, Miodrag Potkon...
Production scheduling, the problem of sequentially con guring a factory to meet forecasted demands, is a critical problem throughout the manufacturing industry. The requirement of...
Jeff G. Schneider, Justin A. Boyan, Andrew W. Moor...
Reuse distance (i.e. LRU stack distance) precisely characterizes program locality and has been a basic tool for memory system research since the 1970s. However, the high cost of m...
Xipeng Shen, Jonathan Shaw, Brian Meeker, Chen Din...
B-trees are the data structure of choice for maintaining searchable data on disk. However, B-trees perform suboptimally ? when keys are long or of variable length, ? when keys are...
Michael A. Bender, Martin Farach-Colton, Bradley C...
We generalize the Kahn-Kalai-Linial (KKL) Theorem to random walks on Cayley and Schreier graphs, making progress on an open problem of Hoory, Linial, and Wigderson. In our general...