— Sidewinding is an efficient translation gait used by snakes over flat ground. When implemented on snake robots, it retains its general effectiveness, but becomes unstable on ...
Nonnegative matrix tri-factorization (NMTF) is a 3-factor decomposition of a nonnegative data matrix, X USV , where factor matrices, U, S, and V , are restricted to be nonnegativ...
Achieving high performance under a peak temperature limit is a first-order concern for VLSI designers. This paper presents a new model of a thermally-managed system, where a stoch...
Adaptive web sites have been proposed to enhance ease of navigation and information retrieval. A variety of approaches are described in the literature, but consideration of interf...
Doug Warner, Stephen D. Durbin, J. Neal Richter, Z...
Previous work on understanding user web search behavior has focused on how people search and what they are searching for, but not why they are searching. In this paper, we describ...