—Large scale production grids are a major case for autonomic computing. Following the classical definition of Kephart, an autonomic computing system should optimize its own beha...
Abstract. The nano-threads programming model was proposed to effectively integrate multiprogramming on shared-memory multiprocessors, with the exploitation of fine-grain parallelis...
Dimitrios S. Nikolopoulos, Eleftherios D. Polychro...
We propose a generic communication primitive designed for sensor networks. Our primitive hides details of network communication while retaining sufficient programmer control over t...
— Several recently-designed robots are able to scale steep surfaces using animal-inspired strategies for foot attachment and leg kinematics. These designs could be valuable for r...
Kathryn A. Daltorio, Timothy C. Witushynsky, Grego...
This paper complements McCarthy's "The well designed child", in part by putting it in a broader context, the space of possible well designed progeny, and in part by...