Recently, many projects have been started to introduce some real-time mechanisms into general purpose operating systems (GPOS) in order to make them capable of providing the users...
Computational trust and reputation models have been recognized as one of the key technologies required to design and implement agent systems. These models manage and aggregate the...
— In this paper we study the problem of dynamic optimization of ping schedule in an active sonar buoy network deployed to provide persistent surveillance of a littoral area throu...
Due to the enormous increase in the stored digital contents, search and retrieval functionalities are necessary in multimedia systems. Though processor speed for standard PCs (Per...
Abstract. Designing and programming dependable distributed applications is very difficult. Databases provide features like transactions and replication that can help in the impleme...