Many applications in ubiquitous computing rely on knowing where people and objects are relative to each other. By placing small wireless sensors on people, at specific locations, ...
Waylon Brunette, Carl Hartung, Ben Nordstrom, Gaet...
In this paper we present a genetic algorithm-based approach towards designing self-assembling objects comprised of square smart blocks. Each edge of each block can have one of thr...
Ying Guo, Geoff Poulton, Philip Valencia, Geoff Ja...
Reverse Nearest Neighbor (RNN) queries are of particular interest in a wide range of applications such as decision support systems, profile based marketing, data streaming, docum...
Amit Singh, Hakan Ferhatosmanoglu, Ali Saman Tosun
Phase change memory (PCM) is an emerging memory technology for future computing systems. Compared to other non-volatile memory alternatives, PCM is more matured to production, and...
The MapReduce distributed programming framework is very popular, but currently lacks the optimization techniques that have been standard with relational database systems for many ...