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WAIM
2004
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
A Low-Cost Checkpointing Scheme for Mobile Computing Systems
In distributed computing systems, processes in different hosts take checkpoints to survive failures. For mobile computing systems, due to certain new characteristics conventional d...
Guohui Li, Hongya Wang, Jixiong Chen
ATAL
2003
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Minimizing communication cost in a distributed Bayesian network using a decentralized MDP
In complex distributed applications, a problem is often decomposed into a set of subproblems that are distributed to multiple agents. We formulate this class of problems with a tw...
Jiaying Shen, Victor R. Lesser, Norman Carver
CSCW
2008
ACM
13 years 6 months ago
Harnessing the wisdom of crowds in wikipedia: quality through coordination
Wikipedia's success is often attributed to involving large numbers of contributors who improve the accuracy, completeness and clarity of articles while reducing bias. However...
Aniket Kittur, Robert E. Kraut
AI
2008
Springer
13 years 4 months ago
A study of mechanisms for improving robotic group performance
Many collaborative multi-robot application domains have limited areas of operation that cause spatial conflicts between robotic teammates. These spatial conflicts can cause the te...
Avi Rosenfeld, Gal A. Kaminka, Sarit Kraus, Onn Sh...
ANOR
2008
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13 years 4 months ago
Coordination mechanisms for inventory control in three-echelon serial and distribution systems
Abstract This paper is concerned with the coordination of inventory control in threeechelon serial and distribution systems under decentralized control. All installations in these ...
Henk Zijm, Judith Timmer