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ENTCS
1998
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15 years 6 months ago
A Concurrent Object Calculus: Reduction and Typing
We obtain a new formalism for concurrent object-oriented languages by extending Abadi and Cardelli's imperative object calculus with operators for concurrency from the -calc...
Andrew D. Gordon, Paul D. Hankin
PVLDB
2008
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15 years 6 months ago
Indexing land surface for efficient kNN query
The class of k Nearest Neighbor (kNN) queries is frequently used in geospatial applications. Many studies focus on processing kNN in Euclidean and road network spaces. Meanwhile, ...
Cyrus Shahabi, Lu-An Tang, Songhua Xing
AI
2011
Springer
15 years 1 months ago
Bounded approximate decentralised coordination via the max-sum algorithm
In this paper we propose a novel approach to decentralised coordination, that is able to efficiently compute solutions with a guaranteed approximation ratio. Our approach is base...
Alex Rogers, Alessandro Farinelli, Ruben Stranders...
MICROMACHINES
2011
15 years 28 days ago
Modeling Self-Assembly Across Scales: The Unifying Perspective of Smart Minimal Particles
: A wealth of current research in microengineering aims at fabricating devices of increasing complexity, notably by (self-)assembling elementary components into heterogeneous funct...
Massimo Mastrangeli, Grégory Mermoud, Alche...
INFOCOM
2011
IEEE
14 years 10 months ago
Continuous multi-dimensional top-k query processing in sensor networks
—Top-k query has long been an important topic in many fields of computer science. Efficient implementation of the top-k queries is the key for information searching. With the n...
Hongbo Jiang, Jie Cheng, Dan Wang, Chonggang Wang,...