Online virtual worlds such as Second Life provide a rich medium for unstructured human interaction in a shared simulated 3D environment. However, many human interactions take place...
Ocean circulation plays an important role in global climate change. In an effort to monitor ocean circulation an infrastructure of more than 3,000 buoys have been deployed in the ...
This paper presents GMLE 1 , a generic and distributed framework for maximum likelihood evaluation. GMLE is currently being applied to astroinformatics for determining the shape o...
Travis J. Desell, Nathan Cole, Malik Magdon-Ismail...
— This paper analyzes and designs medium access control (MAC) protocols for wireless ad-hoc networks through the network utility maximization (NUM) framework. We first reverse-e...
The dynamics of peer participation, or churn, are an inherent property of Peer-to-Peer (P2P) systems and critical for design and evaluation. Accurately characterizing churn requir...