We describe a virtual “tether” for mobile devices that allows groups to have quick, simple and privacy-preserving meetups. Our design provides cues which allow dynamic coordin...
John Williamson, Simon Robinson, Craig Stewart, Ro...
The creation of a generic and modular query optimization and processing infrastructure can provide significant benefits to XML data management. Key pieces of such an infrastructur...
Haris Georgiadis, Minas Charalambides, Vasilis Vas...
We extend a torus-based coterie structure for distributed mutual exclusion to allow k multiple entries in a critical section. In the original coterie, the system nodes are logical...
The Hurst parameter H characterizes the degree of long-range dependence (and asymptotic selfsimilarity) in stationary time series. Many methods have been developed for the estimat...
Stilian Stoev, Murad S. Taqqu, Cheolwoo Park, Geor...
Image retargeting is the problem of adapting images for display on devices different than originally intended. This paper presents a method for adapting large images, such as thos...