Determining whether two terms in text have an ancestor relation (e.g. Toyota and car) or a sibling relation (e.g. Toyota and Honda) is an essential component of textual inference ...
Statistical multiplexing aims at transmitting several variable bit rate (VBR) encoded video streams over a bandlimited channel. Rate-distortion (RD) models for the encoded streams ...
Distributed load managers exhibit thrashing where tasks are repeatedly moved between locations due to incomplete global load information. This paper shows that systems of Autonomou...
We describe techniques for direct pen+touch input. We observe people's manual behaviors with physical paper and notebooks. These serve as the foundation for a prototype Micro...
Ken Hinckley, Koji Yatani, Michel Pahud, Nicole Co...
We study Facility Location games, where a number of facilities are placed in a metric space based on locations reported by strategic agents. A mechanism maps the agents' locat...