This paper describes an experimental alerting system under development by the Australian Bureau of Meteorology, initially targetted at (but not restricted to) the aviation sector....
Ian D. Mathieson, Sandy Dance, Lin Padgham, Malcol...
—Automated distributed sentry systems need only detect suspicious behavior. Microphones and infrared detectors may suffice, as well as being simpler and cheaper than cameras whil...
Recent technological advances have opened up a wide range of distributed real-time applications involving battery-driven embedded devices with local processing and wireless communi...
G. Sudha Anil Kumar, Govindarasu Manimaran, Zhengd...
Fine-Grained Cycle Sharing (FGCS) systems aim at utilizing the large amount of idle computational resources available on the Internet. Such systems allow guest jobs to run on a ho...
Clusters have made the jump from lab prototypes to fullfledged production computing platforms. The number, variety, and specialized configurations of these machines are increasi...