Estimation via sampling out of highly selective join queries is well known to be problematic, most notably in online aggregation. Without goal-directed sampling strategies, samples...
In this paper we present FireWxNet, a multi-tiered portable wireless system for monitoring weather conditions in rugged wildland fire environments. FireWxNet provides the fire fig...
Carl Hartung, Richard Han, Carl Seielstad, Saxon H...
We present the Feasible Label Routing (FLR) protocol for mobile ad hoc networks, which uses path information to establish routes to destinations on demand. FLR enables loopfree in...
In information retrieval, relevance of documents with respect to queries is usually judged by humans, and used in evaluation and/or learning of ranking functions. Previous work ha...
Jingfang Xu, Chuanliang Chen, Gu Xu, Hang Li, Elbi...
Concurrent programming errors arise when threads share data incorrectly. Programmers often avoid these errors by using synchronization to enforce a simple ownership policy: data i...
Jean-Phillipe Martin, Michael Hicks, Manuel Costa,...