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SIGMOD
2003
ACM
123views Database» more  SIGMOD 2003»
16 years 2 months ago
The hyperion project: from data integration to data coordination
We present an architecture and a set of challenges for peer database management systems. These systems team up to build a network of nodes (peers) that coordinate at run time most...
Marcelo Arenas, Vasiliki Kantere, Anastasios Kemen...
ICRA
2008
IEEE
144views Robotics» more  ICRA 2008»
15 years 8 months ago
Decentralized mapping of robot-aided sensor networks
— A key problem in deploying sensor networks in real-world applications is that of mapping, i.e. determining the location of each sensor such that subsequent tasks such as tracki...
Joseph Djugash, Sanjiv Singh, Ben Grocholsky
SASO
2008
IEEE
15 years 8 months ago
An Infection-Based Mechanism for Self-Adaptation in Multi-agent Complex Networks
Distributed mechanisms that regulate the behavior of autonomous agents in open multi-agent systems (MAS) are of high interest since we cannot employ centralized approaches relying...
Norman Salazar, Juan A. Rodríguez-Aguilar, ...
HICSS
2007
IEEE
111views Biometrics» more  HICSS 2007»
15 years 8 months ago
Connected Giving: Ordinary People Coordinating Disaster Relief on the Internet
The Internet is widely valued for distributing control over information to a lateral network of individuals, but it is not clear how these networks can most effectively organize t...
Cristen Torrey, Moira Burke, Matthew L. Lee, Anind...
ICMCS
2007
IEEE
76views Multimedia» more  ICMCS 2007»
15 years 8 months ago
Multi-Party Audio Conferencing Based on a Simpler MCU and Client-Side ECHO Cancellation
Traditional multiparty audio conferencing uses a star-shaped topology where all the clients connect to a central MCU (Multipoint Control Unit). The MCU mixes the signals from the ...
Junlin Li, Li-wei He, Dinei A. F. Florêncio