We define a set of overhead functions that capture the salient artifacts representing the interaction between parallel application characteristics and architectural features. An execution-driven simulation testbed is ...

We present a novel approach for a tool that assists the database administrator in designing an index configuration for a relational database system. A new methodology for collecting usage statistics at run time is ...

New reactive behaviors that implement formations in multi-robot teams are presented and evaluated. These motor schemas, or primitive behaviors, for relative positional maintenance are integrated with existing navigational ...

This report documents a framework called PARINO that we have developed for solving large mixed integer programs (MIPs)in parallel. PARINO combines portability and efficiency with flexibility. It is written in C++, and is ...

It has been known for several years now that variable-bit-rate video sources are strongly auto-correlated. Recently, several studies have indicated that the resulting stochastic processes exhibit long-range dependence ...

We identify a new and non-trivial restriction called bijectivity on Boolean circuits and prove an exponential size lower bound for computing the Boolean permanent matching function in this model. As consequences of ...

Learning is a competence fundamental to intelligence. Intelligent agents who solve problems in a realistic environment need to learn in order to improve their performance in terms of the quality of the solutions they ...

This work investigates the origins of behavioral diversity in learning robot teams. Behavioral diversity refers to the extent to which agents assume distinct behavioral roles in a group. Most research in multi-robot teams ...

Event channels in the CORBA Common Object Services specification are an abstraction designed to provide asynchronous event delivery and notification for distributed object-oriented programs. However, the COS specification ...