We have carefully instrumented a large portion of the population living in a university graduate dormitory by giving participants Android smart phones running our sensing software...
This paper considers the problem of reconstructing visually realistic 3D models of fire from a very small set of simultaneous views (even two). By modeling fire as a semi-transpar...
In this paper, we describe an information agent, that resides on a mobile computer or personal digital assistant (PDA), that can autonomously acquire sensor readings from pervasiv...
Alex Rogers, Mike Osborne, Sarvapali D. Ramchurn, ...
Truly ubiquitous computing poses new and significant challenges. A huge number of heterogeneous devices will interact to perform complex distributed tasks. One of the key aspects...
Nicola Bicocchi, Marco Mamei, Andrea Prati, Rita C...
For many probability distributions of interest, it is quite difficult to obtain samples efficiently. Often, Markov chains are employed to obtain approximately random samples fro...