Developing Multiplayer Pervasive Games and Networked Interactive Installations using Ad hoc Mobile Sensor Nets Orestis Akribopoulos, Marios Logaras, Nikos Vasilakis, Panagiotis Kokkinos, Georgios Mylonas, Ioannis Chatzig

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• Computing
• Gaming
• Mobile computers
• User interface techniques
• Information appliances
• Home video game consoles
• Ubiquitous computing
• Gameplay
• Location-based game
• Augmented reality
• Mobile game
• Context awareness

Towards Fine-grained, Automated Application Compartmentalization Nikos Vasilakis Ben Karel

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Architectural Support for Software-Defined Metadata Processing Udit Dhawan1 C˘at˘alin Hri¸tcu2 Raphael Rubin1 Nikos Vasilakis1 Jonathan M. Smith1

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From Lone Dwarfs to Giant Superclusters: Rethinking Operating System Abstractions for the Cloud Nikos Vasilakis, Ben Karel, Jonathan M. Smith The University of Pennsylvania 1

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• Computer architecture
• Computing
• System software
• Parallel computing
• Cloud infrastructure
• Fault-tolerant computer systems
• Cluster computing
• Kernel
• Operating system
• Unix
• Mach
• Apache Hadoop

HandsFree - Next Generation Sequence Processing, Mapping and Analysis Made Easy Phillipe Loher1, Nikos Vasilakis2, John Malamon1, Huang-Wen Chen3 and Isidore Rigoutsos1,* 1

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• Biology
• Molecular biology
• Biochemistry
• Biotechnology
• DNA
• Cloud infrastructure
• RNA
• Bioinformatics
• DNA sequencing
• DNAnexus
• ChIP-sequencing
• RNA-Seq

Demo Abstract: Using Wireless Sensor Networks to Develop Pervasive Multi-player Games Orestis Akrivopoulos, Marios Logaras, Nikos Vasilakis, Panagiotis Kokkinos, Georgios Mylonas and Ioannis Chatzigiannakis

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• Wireless networking
• Wireless sensor network
• Ubiquitous computing
• Gameplay
• Wireless
• Internet of things
• Ambient intelligence
• Terminology
• Technology
• Computing
• Sensor grid
• Wireless ad hoc network

Query-efficient Partitions for Dynamic Data Nikos Vasilakis Yash Palkhiwala Jonathan M. Smith

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• Data management
• Information retrieval
• Information science
• Search algorithms
• Hashing
• Distributed data storage
• Database management systems
• NoSQL
• Hash function
• Consistent hashing
• Partition
• R-tree

BreakApp: Automated, Flexible Application Compartmentalization Nikos Vasilakis, Ben Karel, Nick Roessler, Nathan Dautenhahn, Andr´e DeHon, Jonathan M. Smith University of Pennsylvania {nvas, karel, nroess, ndd, andre, j

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• Software engineering
• Computing
• Computer programming
• Cross-platform software
• High-level programming languages
• Scripting languages
• Functional languages
• Programming languages
• Loadable kernel module
• Coupling
• Modular programming
• Kernel

PUMP: A Programmable Unit for Metadata Processing Udit Dhawan1 Nikos Vasilakis1 Jonathan M. Smith1 Thomas F. Knight, Jr.3 1

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Learning-Based Abstractions for Nonlinear Constraint Solving Sumanth Dathathri ∗1 , Nikos Arechiga2 , Sicun Gao3 , and Richard M. Murray1 1 Computing and Mathematical Sciences, California Institute of Technology 2

Source URL: scungao.github.io

• Constraint programming
• Mathematical optimization
• Theoretical computer science
• Statistical classification
• Artificial intelligence
• Machine learning
• Support vector machine
• Constraint satisfaction problem
• Constraint satisfaction
• Decomposition method
• Constrained optimization
• Constraint