Cooperation and autonomy are two antagonistic core variables of agent-based systems, and a key challenge in designing such systems is to balance these variables appropriately. Thi...
Geographical information systems are more and more based on a DBMS with spatial extensions, which is also the case for the system described in this paper. The design and implementa...
This paper presents a Feedback Control real-time Scheduling (FCS) framework for adaptive realtime systems. An advantage of the FCS framework is its use of feedback control theory ...
Chenyang Lu, John A. Stankovic, Sang Hyuk Son, Gan...
Delay tolerant networks (DTNs) are a kind of wireless mobile network which may lack continuous network connectivity. Multicast supports the distribution of data to a group of users...
Current PKI-based email systems (such as X.509 S/MIME and PGP/ MIME) potentially enable a recipient to determine a name and organizational affiliation of the sender. This informati...