Increasing user comfort and reducing operation costs have always been two primary objectives of building operations and control strategies. Current building control strategies are...
Vipul Singhvi, Andreas Krause, Carlos Guestrin, Ja...
With the advent of large-scale, wide-area networking testbeds, researchers can deploy long-running distributed services that interact with other resources on the Web. The CoDeeN C...
Limin Wang, KyoungSoo Park, Ruoming Pang, Vivek S....
In this paper, we take the idea of application-level processing on disks to one level further, and focus on an architecture, called Cluster of Active Disks (CAD), where the storag...
In this paper, we describe the development of an Embodied Conversational Agent (ECA) implementing the concept of a companion, i.e. an agent supporting the persistent representatio...
Marc Cavazza, Cameron Smith, Daniel Charlton, Li Z...
Applications running over peer-to-peer (P2P) networks have exploded since the late 1990s. Research is needed into many aspects of P2P. These include architecture, application func...