We consider the problem faced by a mobile robot that has to reach a given target by traveling through an unmapped region in the plane containing oriented rectangular obstacles. We...
Piotr Berman, Avrim Blum, Amos Fiat, Howard J. Kar...
We propose a distributed algorithm to construct a balanced communication tree that serves in gathering data from the network nodes to a sink. Our algorithm constructs a near-optim...
With constantly increasing costs of energy, we ask ourselves what we can say about the energy efficiency of existing VoIP systems. To answer that question, we gather information a...
Salman Abdul Baset, Joshua Reich, Jan Janak, Pavel...
We present DeepPeep (http://www.deeppeep.org), a new system for discovering, organizing and analyzing Web forms. DeepPeep allows users to explore the entry points to hidden-Web si...
Luciano Barbosa, Hoa Nguyen, Thanh Hoang Nguyen, R...
In commercial spoken dialog systems, call flows are built by call flow designers implementing a predefined business logic. While it may appear obvious from this logic how the c...
David Suendermann, Jackson Liscombe, Roberto Piera...