To better represent human interactions in social networks, the authors take a network-oriented simulation approach to analyze the evolution of acquaintance networks based on local...
Abstract—Performance is a key feature of large-scale computing systems. However, the achieved performance when a certain program is executed is significantly lower than the maxi...
Understanding the performance of distributed systems requires correlation of thousands of interactions between numerous components — a task best left to a computer. Today’s sy...
Paul Barham, Rebecca Isaacs, Richard Mortier, Dush...
We present a new approach for faster rendering of large synthetic environments using video-based representations. We decompose the large environment into cells and pre-compute vid...
Andrew Wilson, Ming C. Lin, Boon-Lock Yeo, Minerva...
Pointing gestures are a common and intuitive way to draw somebody’s attention to a certain object. While humans can easily interpret robot gestures, the perception of human beha...