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SASO
2008
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
Spatial Computing with Labels
— A reconfigurable robot is a robot that can change shape. Programming reconfigurable robots is complicated by the need to adapt the behavior of each of the individual module t...
Ulrik Pagh Schultz, Mirko Bordignon, David Johan C...
SASO
2008
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
Using Global Information for Load Balancing in DHTs
Distributed Hash Tables (DHT) with order-preserving hash functions require load balancing to ensure an even item-load over all nodes. While previous item-balancing algorithms only...
Mikael Högqvist, Seif Haridi, Nico Kruber, Al...
SASO
2008
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
Flexible Hierarchical Organisation of Role Based Agents
Emmanuel Adam, Emmanuelle Grislin-Le Strugeon, Ren...
SASO
2008
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
Hierarchical Organizations and a Supporting Software Architecture for Floating Car Data
The use of floating car data is an interesting method to monitor traffic. Vehicles act as local traffic sensors and data from individual vehicles is aggregated into higher-leve...
Robrecht Haesevoets, Danny Weyns, Tom Holvoet, Wou...
SASO
2008
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
Pervasive Self-Learning with Multi-modal Distributed Sensors
Truly ubiquitous computing poses new and significant challenges. A huge number of heterogeneous devices will interact to perform complex distributed tasks. One of the key aspects...
Nicola Bicocchi, Marco Mamei, Andrea Prati, Rita C...
SASO
2008
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
A New Paradigm for SpeckNets: Inspiration from Fungal Colonies
In this position paper, we propose the development of a new biologically inspired paradigm based on fungal colonies, for the application to pervasive adaptive systems. Fungal colo...
Ruth Falconer, James Bown, Emma Hart, Jon Timmis
SASO
2008
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
Cells Are Plausible Targets for High-Level Spatial Languages
—High level languages greatly increase the power of a programmer at the cost of programs that consume more s than those written at a lower level of abstraction. This inefficienc...
Jacob Beal, Jonathan Bachrach
SASO
2008
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
nuBOINC: BOINC Extensions for Community Cycle Sharing
Currently, cycle sharing over the Internet is a one-way deal. Computer owners only have one role in the process: to donate their computers’ idle time. This is due to the fact th...
João Nuno Silva, Luís Veiga, Paulo F...
SASO
2008
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
Bioinspired Environmental Coordination in Spatial Computing Systems
—Spatial computing systems are characterized by the extended physical environment in which they exist and function. Often this environment can be manipulated in various ways by t...
Justin Werfel, Yaneer Bar-Yam, Donald E. Ingber
SASO
2008
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
WSN and P2P: A Self-Managing Marriage
Wireless sensor networks are designed for a very wide, yet specific, purpose. Their components have processing and power limitations. Due to these limitations, decisions by runni...
Gustavo Gutierrez, Boris Mejías, Peter Van ...