Understanding the intent behind a user's query can help search engine to automatically route the query to some corresponding vertical search engines to obtain particularly re...
Jian Hu, Gang Wang, Frederick H. Lochovsky, Jian-T...
This paper presents a method for designing the illumination in an environment using optimization techniques applied to a radiosity based image synthesis system. An optimization of...
In this article, we describe the design process of Reno, a location-enhanced, mobile coordination tool and person finder. The design process included three field experiments: a ...
Giovanni Iachello, Ian E. Smith, Sunny Consolvo, M...
We present AutoDVS, a dynamic voltage scaling (DVS) system for hand-held computers. Unlike extant DVS systems, AutoDVS distinguishes common, course-grain, program behavior and cou...
Video-on-demand (VoD) is increasingly popular with Internet users. It gives users greater choice and more control than live streaming or file downloading. Systems such as MSN Vid...