Sensor networks and other distributed information systems (such as the Web) must frequently access data that has a high per-attribute acquisition cost, in terms of energy, latency...
Amol Deshpande, Carlos Guestrin, Wei Hong, Samuel ...
The need for low-power multimedia processing is integral to portable and embedded devices such as cell phones, wireless terminals, multimedia handhelds and PDAs. The multimedia pr...
Increasingly, applications need to be able to self-reconfigure in response to changing requirements and environmental conditions. Autonomic computing has been proposed as a means...
Andres J. Ramirez, David B. Knoester, Betty H. C. ...
— We present a refined, second-generation design, construction and integration, of a compact hyper-redundant snakelike robot, called “Woodstock.” This robot has substantial a...
H. Ben Brown, Michael Schwerin, Elie A. Shammas, H...
The CARMA-NTG protocol is presented and analyzed. CARMA-NTG dynamically divides the channel into cycles of variable length; each cycle consists of a contention period and a group-...