Aggregate traffic loads and topology in multi-hop wireless networks may vary slowly, permitting MAC protocols to `learn' how to spatially coordinate and adapt contention patte...
-- Future distributed applications are expected to be deployed in an environment that is more dynamic and heterogeneous than ever before. The environment features are difficult to ...
This paper describes a methodology for designing Open Implementations -- software modules that can adapt or change their internals to accommodate the needs of different clients. A...
Chris Maeda, Arthur Lee, Gail C. Murphy, Gregor Ki...
This paper discusses the design and implementation of a payment framework that is loosely based on the direct debit payment model. We define such payments as one in which customer...