We investigate operating system noise, which we identify as one of the main reasons for a lack of synchronicity in parallel applications. Using a microbenchmark, we measure the no...
Peter H. Beckman, Kamil Iskra, Kazutomo Yoshii, Su...
The development of technologies to address machine translation and distillation of multilingual broadcast data depends heavily on the collection of large volumes of material from ...
Abstract— A gesture-based interaction framework is presented for controlling mobile robots. This natural interaction paradigm has few physical requirements, and thus can be deplo...
We define a compositional operational semantics for state machines and their composition in UML. Each state machine describes the behavior of an object of a class. If a class of a...
Harald Fecher, Marcel Kyas, Willem P. de Roever, F...
A ubiquitous computing system derives its operations from the collective interactions of its constituent components. Consequently, a robust ubiquitous system entails that the discr...