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VRML
2003
ACM
15 years 10 months ago
Implementation of a scripting language for VRML/X3D-based embodied agents
Embodied agents or humanoid avatars may effectively be used to communicate with human users. Currently there is a wide range of specification formalisms and scripting languages f...
Zhisheng Huang, Anton Eliëns, Cees T. Visser
LCN
2002
IEEE
15 years 10 months ago
A First Look at Wired Sensor Networks for Video Surveillance Systems
Sensor networks are a major new area of research. Some sensor applications, such as video surveillance, will need to be tethered for reasons of bandwidth and power requirements. T...
Vijay Chandramohan, Kenneth J. Christensen
ICA3PP
2009
Springer
15 years 9 months ago
A Software Transactional Memory Service for Grids
In-memory data sharing for grids allow location-transparent access to data stored in volatile memory. Existing Grid middlewares typ- ically support only explicit data transfer betw...
Kim-Thomas Möller, Marc-Florian Müller, ...
ICDCS
2000
IEEE
15 years 9 months ago
A Client-Server Oriented Algorithm for Virtually Synchronous Group Membership in WANs
We describe a novel scalable group membership algorithm designed for wide area networks WANs. Our membership service does not evolve from existing LAN-oriented membership servic...
Idit Keidar, Jeremy B. Sussman, Keith Marzullo, Da...
IPPS
2000
IEEE
15 years 9 months ago
A Parallel Co-evolutionary Metaheuristic
In order to show that the parallel co-evolution of di erent heuristic methods may lead to an e cient search strategy, we have hybridized three heuristic agents of complementary beh...
Vincent Bachelet, El-Ghazali Talbi