Transactional Memory (TM) is a promising technique that simplifies parallel programming for shared-memory applications. To date, most TM systems have been designed to efficientl...
A wireless sensor network deployment on a glacier in Iceland is described. The system uses power management as well as power harvesting to provide long-term environment sensing. Ad...
This paper reports on the utilisation of object technology in a university-level course on software development, specifically designed for distance learning, and now enrolling ove...
Mark Woodman, Robert Griffiths, Simon Holland, Hug...
We present randomized constructions of linear-time encodable and decodable codes that can transmit over lossy channels at rates extremely close to capacity. The encoding and decod...
Michael Luby, Michael Mitzenmacher, Mohammad Amin ...
Most real-world negotiation scenarios involve multiple, interdependent issues. These scenarios are specially challenging because the agents' utility functions are nonlinear, ...