Sciweavers

1931 search results - page 59 / 387
» Why we blog
Sort
View
NIPS
2008
13 years 10 months ago
Optimal Response Initiation: Why Recent Experience Matters
In most cognitive and motor tasks, speed-accuracy tradeoffs are observed: Individuals can respond slowly and accurately, or quickly yet be prone to errors. Control mechanisms gove...
Matt Jones, Michael C. Mozer, Sachiko Kinoshita
SIROCCO
2007
13 years 10 months ago
Why Robots Need Maps
Abstract. A large group of autonomous, mobile entities e.g. robots initially placed at some arbitrary node of the graph has to jointly visit all nodes (not necessarily all edges) a...
Miroslaw Dynia, Jakub Lopuszanski, Christian Schin...
TNC
2004
105views Education» more  TNC 2004»
13 years 10 months ago
Why Seamless? Towards Exploiting WLAN-Based Intermittent Connectivity on the Road
This paper discusses new mobile usage scenarios for WLAN technologies and presents an architecture that is based on the notion of intermittent connectivity instead of seamless con...
Jörg Ott, Dirk Kutscher
USITS
2003
13 years 10 months ago
Why Do Internet Services Fail, and What Can Be Done About It?
In 1986 Jim Gray published his landmark study of the causes of failures of Tandem systems and the techniques Tandem used to prevent such failures [6]. Seventeen years later, Inter...
David L. Oppenheimer, Archana Ganapathi, David A. ...
CCR
2006
82views more  CCR 2006»
13 years 8 months ago
Why flow-completion time is the right metric for congestion control
Users typically want their flows to complete as quickly as possible: They want a web-page to download quickly, or a file transfer to complete as rapidly as possible. In other words...
Nandita Dukkipati, Nick McKeown