Abstract. Understanding a large schema without the assistance of persons already familiar with it (and its associated applications), is a hard and very time consuming task that occ...
Abstract. There is increasing interest in location-aware systems and applications. It is important for any designer of such systems and applications to understand the nature of use...
— The conventional wisdom has been that IP is the natural protocol layer for implementing multicast related functionality. However, more than a decade after its initial proposal,...
The management of large databases of hierarchical (e.g., multi-scale or multilevel) image features is a common problem in object recognition. Such structures are often represented ...
Speculative computing is a technique to improve the execution time of certain applications by starting some computations before it is known that the computations are required. A s...