Working in a team environment can be either an efficient and productive means of completing projects or a nightmare where the project never seems to end. Most of us have been a pa...
Crawling the web is deceptively simple: the basic algorithm is (a) Fetch a page (b) Parse it to extract all linked URLs (c) For all the URLs not seen before, repeat (a)?(c). Howev...
The execution time of a large query depends mainly on the memory utilization which should avoid disk accesses for intermediate results. Poor memory management can hurt performance ...
Standard slow start does not work well under large bandwidthdelay product (BDP) networks. We find two causes of this problem in existing three popular operating systems, Linux, F...
In this paper, we introduce the notion of a programmable imaging system. Such an imaging system provides a human user or a vision system significant control over the radiometric a...