— The optimal deployment of sinks in a sensor region for power efficient data gathering of a physical phenomenon is investigated in this work. In the system of consideration, no...
Lorenzo A. Rossi, Bhaskar Krishnamachari, C. C. Ja...
THOR is a persistent object store that provides a powerful programming model. THOR ensures that persistent objects are accessed only by calling their methods and it supports atomic...
Barbara Liskov, Miguel Castro, Liuba Shrira, Atul ...
This paper suggests an evolutionary approach to design coordination strategies, a key issue in distributed intelligent systems. We focus on competitive strategies in the form of f...
We investigate several techniques that partition a crowded virtual environment into regions that can be managed by separate servers or mapped onto different multicast groups. When...
In this work we present the design principles of a wearable positioning system for users in unprepared indoor environments. We describe the most suitable technology for our applica...