— The paper addresses the problem of autonomous navigation of a car-like robot evolving in an urban environment. Such an environment exhibits an heterogeneous geometry and is clu...
Application autonomy can reduce interactions with users, ease the use of the system, and decrease user distraction. On the other hand, users may feel loss of control over their ap...
The high cost of operating large computing installations has motivated a broad interest in reducing the need for human intervention by making systems self-managing. This paper exp...
Yixin Diao, Joseph L. Hellerstein, Sujay S. Parekh...
Abstract--The paper studies the problem of distributed transmit beamforming with autonomous and self-organizing mobile antennas. The objective is to design a distributed algorithm ...
A growing trend in the development and deployment of grid computing systems is decentralization. Decentralizing these systems helps make them more scalable and robust, but poses s...