This paper presents an efficient tree-based query protocol for tag identification in Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) systems. Instead of reducing collisions, our proposed pro...
For Peer-2-Peer (P2P) networks to realize their full potential their nodes need to coordinate and cooperate, to improve the performance of the network as a whole. But this requires...
efined abstract representation of a semantic path that respects the ontological classes of a particular semantic network. A discrete "walker" utilizes the grammar to dete...
Obligation Policies specify management actions that must be performed when a particular kind of event occurs and certain conditions are satisfied. Large scale distributed systems...
Abstract. This paper presents some important directions in the use of ontologybased semantics in achieving the vision of Autonomic Communications. We examine the requirements of Au...
David Lewis, Kevin Feeney, Kevin Carey, Thanassis ...