Abstract—Home area networks (HANs) promise to enable sophisticated home automation applications such as smart energy usage and assisted living. However, recent empirical study of...
We describe a load-balancing mechanism for assigning elements to servers in a distributed data structure that supports range queries. The mechanism ensures both load-balancing wit...
James Aspnes, Jonathan Kirsch, Arvind Krishnamurth...
HARNESS is an experimental metacomputing system that supports dynamic software reconfiguration, both of the resources that comprise the virtual machine and the services provided t...
One problem of data-driven answer extraction in open-domain factoid question answering is that the class distribution of labeled training data is fairly imbalanced. This imbalance...
Michael Wiegand, Jochen L. Leidner, Dietrich Klako...
In a principal-agent problem, a principal seeks to motivate an agent to take a certain action beneficial to the principal, while spending as little as possible on the reward. This...