This paper describes design criteria for creating highly embedded, interactive spaces that we call Intelligent Environments. The motivation for building these systems is to bring ...
One of the major problems when translating from Japanese into a European language such as German or English is to determine definiteness of noun phrases in order to choose the cor...
We propose a new approach for I/O scheduling that performs on-line simulation of the underlying disk. When simulation is integrated within a system, three key challenges must be a...
Florentina I. Popovici, Andrea C. Arpaci-Dusseau, ...
This paper presents a new approach to integrate the gradient field to the relative depth or height map from multiple view directions in polar coordinates. Traditional integration ...
The execution order of a block of computer instructions can make a difference in its running time by a factor of two or more. In order to achieve the best possible speed, compiler...