The size of a document archive is a very important parameter for resource selection in distributed information retrieval systems. In this paper, we present a method for automatical...
Communication delay is a key source of uncertainty in distributed systems. Existing approaches to reduce this uncertainty focus on maintaining sufficient surplus bandwidth; appli...
The distributed information technologies collectively known as Web services recently have demonstrated powerful capabilities for scalable interoperation of heterogeneous software a...
J. Mark Pullen, Ryan Brunton, Donald P. Brutzman, ...
Pervasive environments can be hard to configure and interact with using handheld computing devices, due to the mismatch between physical and digital worlds. Usually, smart resourc...
We document our initial e orts to instantiate visuallyguided cooperative behaviors between robotic agents in the minifactory environment. Minifactory incorporates high-precision 2...
Michael L. Chen, Shinji Kume, Alfred A. Rizzi, Ral...