This paper explores the critical role conversational coherence plays in facilitating the ongoing, distributed work of one virtual team as they engage in instant messaging (IM) con...
Stephanie L. Woerner, JoAnne Yates, Wanda J. Orlik...
In this paper an efficient scheduling mechanism for wireless local area networks (WLAN) is proposed. This innovative scheme, named hybrid HCCA-EDCA centralised scheme (HHECS), is b...
David Gozalvez, Jose F. Monserrat, Javier Goz&aacu...
Grid computing is a form of distributed computing that involves coordinating and sharing computing, application, data storage or network resources across dynamic and geographicall...
This paper is concerned with argumentation-based dialogues between agents. Much work in this area has been based upon an influential taxonomy of dialogue types developed by Walto...
We focus on data gathering problems in energy-constrained wireless sensor networks. We study store-and-gather problems where data are locally stored on the sensors before the data ...