One of the reasons that it is difficult to plan and act in real-worlddomains is that they are very large. Existing research generallydeals with the large domain size using a static representation andexploiting a single ...

The present Internet routing system faces two challengingproblems. First, unlike in the telephone system, Internet users cannotchoose their wide-area Internet service providers (ISPs) separatelyfrom their local access ...

This paper proposes counter-measures that can be deployedas part of a replicated system to reduce the size ofW, and thus reduce the class of attacks to which the system is vulnerable. Obviously it will not be possible to ...

EpiChord is a DHT lookup algorithm that demonstrates that we canremove the O(log n)-state-per-node restriction on existing DHTtopologies to achieve significantly better lookup performance andresilience using a novel reactive ...

Freehand sketching is a natural and crucial part of everyday humaninteraction, yet is almost totally unsupported by current user interfaces. With the increasing availability of tablet notebooks and pen based PDAs, sketchbased ...

Riesenhuber \& Poggio recently proposed a model of object recognitionin cortex which, beyond integrating general beliefs about the visualsystem in a quantitative framework, made testable predictions aboutvisual processing. ...

In this paper, we discuss a wireless grid in which users are highly mobile, and form ad-hoc and sometimes short-lived connections with other devices. As they roam through networks, the users may choose to employ ...

We present a framework for learning abstract relational knowledge with the aimof explaining how people acquire intuitive theories of physical, biological, orsocial systems. Our approach is based on a generative relational ...

We describe an algorithm for deciding the first-order multisorted theory BAPA, which combines 1) Boolean algebras of sets of uninterpreted elements (BA) and 2) Presburger arithmetic operations (PA). BAPA can express the ...

The IOA language provides notations for defining both primitive and composite I/O automata.This note describes, both formally and with examples, the constraints on these definitions, thecomposability requirements for the ...

The Input/Output (I/O) automaton model developed by Lynch and Tuttle models components in asynchronous concurrentsystems as labeled transition systems. IOA is a precise language for describing I/O automata and for stating ...

Digital circuits often have a critical path that runs through a smallsubset of the component subblocks, but where the path changes dynamicallyduring operation. Dynamically resizable static CMOS (DRCMOS) logic isproposed ...

We present a constant-factor approximation algorithm for computing anembedding of the shortest path metric of an unweighted graph into atree, that minimizes the multiplicative distortion.

We give a one-pass, O~(m^{1-2/k})-space algorithm for estimating the k-th frequency moment of a data stream for any real k>2. Together with known lower bounds, this resolves the main problem left open by Alon, Matias, ...

We seek to both detect and segment objects in images. To exploit both local image data as well as contextual information, we introduce Boosted Random Fields (BRFs), which uses Boosting to learn the graph structure and ...

Intermediate network elements, such as network address translators (NATs), firewalls, and transparent caches are now commonplace. The usual reaction in the network architecture community to these so-called middleboxes is ...

This paper investigates how people return to information in a dynamic information environment. For example, a person might want to return to Web content via a link encountered earlier on a Web page, only to learn that the ...

Most Artificial Intelligence (AI) work can be characterized as either ``high-level'' (e.g., logical, symbolic) or ``low-level'' (e.g., connectionist networks, behavior-based robotics). Each approach suffers from particular ...

For the last several decades, computer architecture research has largely benefited from, and continues to be driven by ad-hoc benchmarking. Often the benchmarks are selected to represent workloads that architects believe ...

The bypass paths and multiported register files in microprocessors serve as an implicit interconnect tocommunicate operand values among pipeline stages and multiple ALUs. Previous superscalar designs implementedthis ...