Abstract. Caching frequently accessed data at the client is an attractive technique for improving access time. In a mobile computing environment, client location becomes a piece of...
Jianliang Xu, Xueyan Tang, Dik Lun Lee, Qinglong H...
In a simple cooperative MAS model where a collection of "querying agents" can send queries to a collection of "information agents", we formalize the problem of ...
In this paper, we analyze the relative merits of uniform versus priority dropping for the transmission of layered video. We rst present our original intuitions about these two app...
Many real-time database systems are now being used in safety-critical applications, in which human lives or expensive machinery may be at stake. Transactions in real-time database...
Sang Hyuk Son, Robert C. Beckinger, David A. Baker
An issue central to the navigation problem is memory. Traditional systems build symbolic maps of the world for navigational reference. Reactive methods, in contrast, eliminate or m...