Service providers like Google and Amazon are moving into the SaaS (Software as a Service) business. They turn their huge infrastructure into a cloud-computing environment and aggr...
Wai Kit Wong, David Wai-Lok Cheung, Ben Kao, Nikos...
Recent advances in technology have made low cost, low power wireless sensors a reality. Clock synchronization is an important service in any distributed system, including sensor n...
Santashil PalChaudhuri, Amit Kumar Saha, David B. ...
Solid state drives perform random reads more than 100x faster than traditional magnetic hard disks, while offering comparable sequential read and write bandwidth. Because of their...
Experiments in High Energy Physics (HEP) generate tremendous amounts of data. For example, the accelerator at CERN is expected to generate petabytes per year. New HEP discoveries ...
Jagadeesh Kasaraneni, Theodore Johnson, Paul Avery
Stochastic topological models, and hidden Markov models in particular, are a useful tool for robotic navigation and planning. In previous work we have shown how weak odometric dat...