Reducing power consumption has become a major challenge in the design and operation of today's computer systems. This chapter describes different techniques addressing this c...
— The paper presents IRIS, an Integrated Routing and Interest dissemination System for wireless sensor networks. The proposed protocols are designed to work under very low duty c...
Text is a pervasive information type, and many applications require querying over text sources in addition to structured data. This paper studies the problem of query processing i...
Cooperative co-evolution is often used to solve difficult optimization problems by means of problem decomposition. Its performance for such tasks can vary widely from good to disa...
In this paper, a new framework for the tracking of closed curves is described. The proposed approach, formalized through an optimal control technique, enables a continuous trackin...