—This paper studies economic models of user participation incentive in participatory sensing applications. User participation is the most important element in participatory sensi...
Reputation mechanisms offer an effective alternative to verification authorities for building trust in electronic markets with moral hazard. Future clients guide their business...
We describe a decentralized, adaptive mechanism for replica location in wide-area distributed systems. Unlike traditional, hierarchical (e.g, DNS) and more recent (e.g., CAN, Chor...
Pre-fabrication design verification and post-fabrication chip testing are two important stages in the product realization process. These two stages consume a large part of resourc...
Selective attention in the human visual system is performed as the way that humans focus on the most important parts when observing a visual scene. Many bottom-up computational mo...