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ADHOCNETS
2010
Springer
14 years 8 months ago
Guaranteeing Reliable Communications in Mesh Beacon-Enabled IEEE802.15.4 WSN for Industrial Monitoring Applications
Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) are a very promising solution for industrial monitoring applications in terms of safety, costs, efficiency and productivity. However, in order to mov...
Berta Carballido Villaverde, Susan Rea, Dirk Pesch
CHI
2010
ACM
15 years 6 months ago
Social gravity: a virtual elastic tether for casual, privacy-preserving pedestrian rendezvous
We describe a virtual “tether” for mobile devices that allows groups to have quick, simple and privacy-preserving meetups. Our design provides cues which allow dynamic coordin...
John Williamson, Simon Robinson, Craig Stewart, Ro...
CHI
2007
ACM
15 years 11 months ago
Recent shortcuts: using recent interactions to support shared activities
We present an empirical study of teams that revealed the amount of extraneous individual work needed to enable collaboration: finding references to other people, finding files to ...
John C. Tang, James Lin, Jeffrey Pierce, Steve Whi...
IROS
2008
IEEE
151views Robotics» more  IROS 2008»
15 years 5 months ago
A performance sensitive hormone-inspired system for task distribution amongst evolving robots
— A hormone-inspired task scheduling method is described which assigns tasks to a group of robots, taking into account the robots’ performances. This method draws on previous w...
Joanne H. Walker, Myra S. Wilson
GECCO
2006
Springer
191views Optimization» more  GECCO 2006»
15 years 3 months ago
The Brueckner network: an immobile sorting swarm
In many industrial applications, the dynamic control of queuing and routing presents difficult challenges. We describe a novel ant colony control system for a multiobjective sorti...
William A. Tozier, Michael R. Chesher, Tejinderpal...