The pervasive use of ambiguous keypads for mobile text entry necessitates examination of their performance characteristics. This paper presents TnToolkit – a self-contained tool...
Many tools exist for developing real-time distributed groupware, but most of these tools focus primarily on the performance of the resulting system, or on simplifying the developm...
Motion estimation is a key component of modern video encoding and is very compute-intensive. We present a novel Sensor-assisted Video Encoding (SaVE) method to reduce the computat...
XiaoMing Chen, Zhendong Zhao, Ahmad Rahmati, Ye Wa...
The existence of on-line social networks that include person specific information creates interesting opportunities for various applications ranging from marketing to community o...
Barbara Carminati, Elena Ferrari, Raymond Heatherl...
A common practice in system design is to treat features intended to enhance performance and reliability as low priority tasks by scheduling them during idle periods, with the goal...
Ningfang Mi, Alma Riska, Xin Li, Evgenia Smirni, E...