Abstract: This paper presents a novel design of a Jiegged "spider" robot capable of moving in a wide range of two-dimensional tunnels. The spider moves in a quasistatic m...
Abstract. Approximate Mean Value Analysis (MVA) is a popular technique for analyzing queueing networks because of the efficiency and accuracy that it affords. In this paper, we pre...
PLC-Automata are a class of real-time automata suitable to describe the behavior of polling real-time systems. PLC-Automata can be compiled to source code for PLCs, a hardware wide...
There is an emerging class of real-time interactive applications that require the dynamic integration of task and data parallelism. An example is the Smart Kiosk, a free-standing ...
James M. Rehg, Kathleen Knobe, Umakishore Ramachan...
A cooperative database allows the user to specify approximate or vague query conditions. A vague query requires the database system to rank the retrieved answers according to thei...