We have implemented an incremental lexical acquisition mechanism that learns the meanings of previously unknown words from the context in which they appear, as a part of the proce...
The well-accepted wisdom is that TCP's exponential backoff mechanism, introduced by Jacobson 20 years ago, is essential for preserving the stability of the Internet. In this ...
—Current rate control (selection) algorithms in IEEE 802.11 are not based on accurate measurements of packet errors caused at the physical layer. Instead, algorithms act on measu...
Scientific computing has seen an immense growth in recent years. The Message Passing Interface (MPI) has become the de-facto standard for parallel programming model for distribute...
As chip densities and clock rates increase, processors are becoming more susceptible to transient faults that can affect program correctness. Up to now, system designers have prim...
George A. Reis, Jonathan Chang, Neil Vachharajani,...