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ICRA
2010
IEEE
120views Robotics» more  ICRA 2010»
13 years 6 months ago
Probabilistic search with agile UAVs
— Through their ability to rapidly acquire aerial imagery, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) have the potential to aid target search tasks. Many of the core algorithms which are us...
Sonia Waharte, Andrew Colquhoun Symington, Niki Tr...
SIGECOM
2010
ACM
156views ECommerce» more  SIGECOM 2010»
14 years 27 days ago
Robust mechanisms for risk-averse sellers
The existing literature on optimal auctions focuses on optimizing the expected revenue of the seller, and is appropriate for risk-neutral sellers. In this paper, we identify good ...
Mukund Sundararajan, Qiqi Yan
NSDI
2007
13 years 10 months ago
Exploiting Similarity for Multi-Source Downloads Using File Handprints
Many contemporary approaches for speeding up large file transfers attempt to download chunks of a data object from multiple sources. Systems such as BitTorrent quickly locate sou...
Himabindu Pucha, David G. Andersen, Michael Kamins...
TC
2011
13 years 3 months ago
Performing Arithmetic Operations on Round-to-Nearest Representations
—During any composite computation, there is a constant need for rounding intermediate results before they can participate in further processing. Recently, a class of number repre...
Peter Kornerup, Jean-Michel Muller, Adrien Panhale...
SIES
2009
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
Programmable temporal isolation through variable-bandwidth servers
—We introduce variable-bandwidth servers (VBS) for scheduling and executing processes under programmable temporal isolation. A VBS is an extension of a constant-bandwidth server ...
Silviu S. Craciunas, Christoph M. Kirsch, Hannes P...