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SIGMOD
2003
ACM
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Improving the Efficiency of Database-System Teaching
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...
Jeffrey D. Ullman
ICIAP
2003
ACM
16 years 6 months ago
Olympus: an ambient intelligence architecture on the verge of reality
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...
PERCOM
2003
ACM
16 years 6 months ago
Self-Adaptive Leasing for Jini
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...
Kevin Bowers, Kevin Mills, Scott Rose
PERCOM
2003
ACM
16 years 6 months ago
Location-Based E-Campus Web Services: From Design to Deployment
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,...
MOBIHOC
2003
ACM
16 years 6 months ago
Localization from mere connectivity
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...