Manyimportant physical phenomena,such as temperature distribution, air flow, and acoustic waves,are describedas continuous,distributed parameterfields. Analyzingandcontrolling the...
The backup of large data sets is preferably performed automatically outside of regular working hours. In highly structured computer networks, however, faults and exceptions may rel...
A radio network is described for configuring, monitoring, and diagnosing the components of a computer system. Such a network offers several advantages: (a) it improves the robustn...
Open distributed systems are typically composed by an unknown number of processes running in heterogeneous hosts. Their communication often requires tolerance to temporary disconn...
Alysson Neves Bessani, Miguel Correia, Joni da Sil...
We investigate the application of a low-cost, pervasively distributed network to plan paths for mobile robots in environments with dynamic obstacles. We consider a heterogeneous s...