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COMPGEOM
2006
ACM
15 years 10 months ago
Plane embeddings of planar graph metrics
Embedding metrics into constant-dimensional geometric spaces, such as the Euclidean plane, is relatively poorly understood. Motivated by applications in visualization, ad-hoc netw...
MohammadHossein Bateni, Mohammad Taghi Hajiaghayi,...
DOCENG
2006
ACM
15 years 10 months ago
Comparing XML path expressions
XPath is the standard declarative language for navigating XML data and returning a set of matching nodes. In the context of XSLT/XQuery analysis, query optimization, and XML type ...
Pierre Genevès, Nabil Layaïda
HRI
2006
ACM
15 years 10 months ago
Teaching robots by moulding behavior and scaffolding the environment
Programming robots to carry out useful tasks is both a complex and non-trivial exercise. A simple and intuitive method to allow humans to train and shape robot behaviour is clearl...
Joe Saunders, Chrystopher L. Nehaniv, Kerstin Daut...
HRI
2006
ACM
15 years 10 months ago
Daily HRI evaluation at a classroom environment: reports from dance interaction experiments
The design and development of social robots that interact and assist people in daily life requires moving into unconstrained daily-life environments. This presents unexplored meth...
Fumihide Tanaka, Javier R. Movellan, Bret Fortenbe...
IMC
2006
ACM
15 years 10 months ago
A study of malware in peer-to-peer networks
Peer-to-peer (P2P) networks continue to be popular means of trading content. However, very little protection is in place to make sure that the files exchanged in these networks a...
Andrew J. Kalafut, Abhinav Acharya, Minaxi Gupta