We envision participatory texture documentation (PTD) as a process in which a group of users (dedicated individuals and/or general public) with camera-equipped mobile phones parti...
Cyrus Shahabi, Farnoush Banaei Kashani, Houtan Shi...
The throughput of Peer-to-Peer (P2P) Video-on-Demand (VoD) systems is typically capped by the users' aggregate upload bandwidth [1]. The drastic increase in the popularity of...
The advances in wireless communication and decreasing costs of mobile devices have enabled users to access desired information at any time. Coupled with positioning technologies l...
The R*-tree is a state-of-the-art spatial index structure. It has already found its way into commercial systems. The most important improvement of the R*-tree over the original R-...
Efficient system-level design is increasingly relying on hierarchical design-space exploration, as well as compositional methods, to shorten time-to-market, leverage design re-use...