Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate different effects of three network externality factors, i.e. local network size, network strength, and total network size, ...
Traffic congestion has become a major concern for many cities throughout the world. Simulations provide useful tools for engineer to plan traffic systems and government to make de...
Networks of wireless microsensors for monitoring physical environments have emerged as an important new application area for the wireless technology. Key attributes of these new t...
The growing computational and storage needs of several scientific applications mandate the deployment of extreme-scale parallel machines, such as IBM’s Blue Gene/L which can acc...
In mobile teamwork environments two basic problems exist: how to discover someone based on a profile (skills, reputations) and how to assess that person’s “credibility” (tr...