This paper addresses the problem of computing approximate answers to continuous join queries. We present a new method, called DHTJoin, which combines hash-based placement of tuples in a Distributed Hash Table (DHT) and dissemination of queries exploiting the trees formed by the underlying DHT links. DHTJoin distributes the query workload across multiple DHT nodes and provides a mechanism that a...

Corpora of referring expressions paired with their visual referents are a good source for learning word meanings directly grounded in visual representations. Here, we explore additional ways of extracting from them word representations linked to multi-modal context: through expressions that refer to the same object, and through expressions that refer to different objects in the same scene. We s...

The session opened with two papers which addressed the compensation for noise and microphone characteristics. Significant performance improvement was demonstrated. Michael Picheny made an important comment in response to these papers, namely that these techniques have been developed before. Why are they not incorporated as a standard part o f speech preprocessing for all speech recognition syst...

Timing in peak gait values shifts slightly between gait trials. When gait data are averaged, some of the standard deviation can be associated to this inter-trial variability unless normalization is carried out beforehand. The objective of this study was to determine how continuous curve registration, an alignment technique, can reduce inter-subject variability in gait data without altering the ...

This paper describes a basic electronics learning system combining a hypermedia system explaining theoretical concepts with a basic simulator and a virtual laboratory to improve the engineering education process on electronics and the students skills before going to the actual laboratory. To accomplish this objective the system also provides a set of complementary resources, constituting a brid...

This paper contains the motivation for the study of critical surfaces in [2]. In that paper, the only justification given for the definition of this new class of surfaces is the strength of the results. However, when viewed as the topological analogue to index 2 minimal surfaces, critical surfaces become quite natural.