Sciweavers

17 search results - page 2 / 4
» Experience with some Principles for Building an Internet-Sca...
Sort
View
ICRA
2006
IEEE
128views Robotics» more  ICRA 2006»
13 years 11 months ago
Distributed Construction by Mobile Robots with Enhanced Building Blocks
— We describe a system in which autonomous robots assemble two-dimensional structures out of square building blocks. A fixed set of local control rules is sufficient for a grou...
Justin Werfel, Yaneer Bar-Yam, Daniela Rus, Radhik...
SPE
1998
129views more  SPE 1998»
13 years 4 months ago
Timing Trials, or the Trials of Timing: Experiments with Scripting and User-Interface Languages
This paper describes some basic experiments to see how fast various popular scripting and user-interface languages run on a spectrum of representative tasks. We found enormous var...
Brian W. Kernighan, Christopher J. Van Wyk
TC
2002
13 years 4 months ago
Fast Asynchronous Uniform Consensus in Real-Time Distributed Systems
We investigate whether asynchronous computational models and asynchronous algorithms can be considered for designing real-time distributed fault-tolerant systems. A priori, the lac...
Jean-François Hermant, Gérard Le Lan...
VR
2002
IEEE
136views Virtual Reality» more  VR 2002»
13 years 9 months ago
Applications of Temporal Links: Recording and Replaying Virtual Environments
Temporal links allow recordings of multi-user sessions to be dynamically inserted into current virtual worlds in a flexible and principled way. This paper explores key application...
Chris Greenhalgh, Martin Flintham, Jim Purbrick, S...
EUROSYS
2009
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
Transparent checkpoints of closed distributed systems in Emulab
Emulab is a testbed for networked and distributed systems experimentation. Two guiding principles of its design are realism and control of experimentation. There is an inherent te...
Anton Burtsev, Prashanth Radhakrishnan, Mike Hible...