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EDBT
2010
ACM
206views Database» more  EDBT 2010»
16 years 1 months ago
Efficient computation of trade-off skylines
When selecting alternatives from large amounts of data, trade-offs play a vital role in everyday decision making. In databases this is primarily reflected by the top-k retrieval p...
Christoph Lofi, Ulrich Güntzer, Wolf-Tilo Bal...
ICRA
2009
IEEE
140views Robotics» more  ICRA 2009»
16 years 1 months ago
1000 Trials: An empirically validated end effector that robustly grasps objects from the floor
—Unstructured, human environments present great challenges and opportunities for robotic manipulation and grasping. Robots that reliably grasp household objects with unknown or u...
Zhe Xu, Travis Deyle, Charles C. Kemp
MHCI
2009
Springer
16 years 1 months ago
Fixed in time and "time in motion": mobility of vision through a SenseCam lens
SenseCam is an automatic wearable camera, often seen as a tool for the creation of digital memories. In this paper, we report findings from a field trial in which SenseCams were w...
Siân E. Lindley, Richard H. R. Harper, David...
NOMS
2008
IEEE
118views Communications» more  NOMS 2008»
16 years 1 months ago
Policy-based self-management of hybrid ad hoc networks for dynamic channel configuration
— Wireless networks have become a ubiquitous reality and ever more surround our everyday activities. They form and disappear around us spontaneously and have become new means for...
Antonis M. Hadjiantonis, George Pavlou
SIGUCCS
2006
ACM
16 years 19 days ago
Because we have better things to do: automating common support tasks
As technology permeates more aspects of our everyday lives, greater demands are placed on information technology personnel. Lehigh University computing consultants have found thei...
Keith B. Erekson, Stephen G. Lewis