It is well known that optimal server placement is NP-hard. We present an approximate model for the case when both clients and servers are dense, and propose a simple server alloca...
A system for the tracking and classification of livestock movements is presented. The combined `tracker-classifier' scheme is based on a variant of Isard and Blakes `Condensa...
This paper presents a method to implement integrated services of networked home electric appliances, which provide more convenient and comfortable living for home users. The conve...
We describe ongoing work on I2I, a system aimed at fostering opportunistic communication among users viewing or manipulating content on the Web and in productivity applications. U...
Jay Budzik, Shannon Bradshaw, Xiaobin Fu, Kristian...
Fault tolerance is an important issue for large machines with tens or hundreds of thousands of processors. Checkpoint-based methods, currently used on most machines, rollback all ...