In a mobile computing system, caching data items at the mobile clients is important to reduce the data access delay in a unreliable and low bandwidth mobile network. However, effi...
Joe Chun-Hung Yuen, Edward Chan, Kam-yiu Lam, Hei-...
Collaborative work requires, more than ever, access to data located on multiple autonomous and heterogeneous data sources. The development of these novel information platforms, ref...
The handling of user preferences is becoming an increasingly important issue in present-day information systems. Among others, preferences are used for information filtering and ex...
The role of the second order adjoint in targeting strategies is studied and analyzed. Most targeting strategies use the first order adjoint to identify regions where additional in...
Abstract—We study the problem of contour tracking with binary sensors, an important problem for monitoring spatial signals and tracking group targets. In particular, we track the...
Xianjin Zhu, Rik Sarkar, Jie Gao, Joseph S. B. Mit...