Software construction has typically drawn on engineering metaphors like building bridges or cathedrals, which emphasize architecture, specification, central planning, and determin...
David F. Bacon, Eric Bokelberg, Yiling Chen, Ian A...
—Virtual coordinate systems (VCS) provide accurate estimations of latency between arbitrary hosts on a network, while conducting a small amount of actual measurements and relying...
Biometric systems identify users based on behavioral or physiological characteristics. The advantages of such systems over traditional authentication methods such as passwords are...
While the sun is important for our health, overexposure to sunlight carries significant health risks ranging from sunburn to skin cancer. Although people know about these risks, ...
Thomas Fahrni, Michael Kuhn 0002, Philipp Sommer, ...
In this work we examine the characteristics of social activity and patterns of communication on Twitter, a prominent example of the emerging class of communication systems we call...