Research has shown that decentralized networks and organizations perform better and have more satisfied members than centralized ones. Further, decentralized self-organizing netwo...
—This paper studies economic models of user participation incentive in participatory sensing applications. User participation is the most important element in participatory sensi...
Markov Networks (also known as Markov Random Fields) have been proposed as a new approach to probabilistic modelling in Estimation of Distribution Algorithms (EDAs). An EDA employ...
Alexander E. I. Brownlee, John A. W. McCall, Deryc...
—This paper addresses context issues in pervasive mobile computing and presents a semantic context model to support location based cooperative mobile applications. In this paper,...
—Epidemic-based communications, or “gossiping”, provides a robust and scalable method for maintaining a knowledge base in a sensor network faced with an unpredictable network...
Graham Williamson, Davide Cellai, Simon A. Dobson,...