The education industry has a very poor record of productivity gains. In this brief article, I outline some of the ways the teaching of a college course in database systems could b...
This paper presents Olympus, a modular processing architecture for a distributed ambient intelligence. The system is aimed at detailed reporting of people wandering and gesturing ...
F. Bertamini, Roberto Brunelli, Oswald Lanz, A. Ro...
Distributed systems require strategies to detect and recover from failures. Many protocols for distributed systems employ a strategy based on leases, which grant a leaseholder acc...
In our previous work, we have designed, using a network-based approach, and are currently deploying on Purdue wireless Infrastructure, a Web service for location discovery of 802....
Simon G. M. Koo, Catherine Rosenberg, Hoi-Ho Chan,...
It is often useful to know the geographic positions of nodes in a communications network, but adding GPS receivers or other sophisticated sensors to every node can be expensive. W...
Yi Shang, Wheeler Ruml, Ying Zhang, Markus P. J. F...