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ICRA
2003
IEEE
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16 years 1 hour ago
A miniature inspection robot negotiating pipes of widely varying diameter
The purpose of this research is to realize a small robot which can negotiate pipes whose diameter varies widely during the robot’s course. A new in-pipe locomotion mechanism nam...
Koichi Suzumori, Shuichi Wakimoto, Masanori Takata
ICDCS
2007
IEEE
15 years 10 months ago
Efficient Backbone Construction Methods in MANETs Using Directional Antennas
In this paper, we consider the issue of constructing an energy-efficient virtual network backbone in mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs) for broadcasting applications using directiona...
Shuhui Yang, Jie Wu, Fei Dai
WSC
2008
15 years 9 months ago
Heuristics for balancing Operating Room and post-anesthesia resources under uncertainty
The Post-Anesthesia Care Unit (PACU) is a shared resource in the hospital where patients recover from surgery. It is fed by a set of Operating Rooms (OR's) often spanning sev...
Jill H. Iser, Brian T. Denton, Russell E. King
DAGSTUHL
1997
15 years 8 months ago
Fast and Accurate Collision Detection for Virtual Environments
A realistic simulation system, which couples geometry and physics, can provide a useful toolkit for virtual environments. Interactions among moving objects in the virtual worlds a...
Ming C. Lin
JACM
2006
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15 years 6 months ago
Distribution sort with randomized cycling
Parallel independent disks can enhance the performance of external memory (EM) algorithms, but the programming task is often di cult. In this paper we develop randomized variants ...
Jeffrey Scott Vitter, David A. Hutchinson