This paper describes TEMPEST, a planner that enables a solar-powered rover to reason about path selection and event placement in terms of available solar energy and anticipated po...
Economic principles are increasingly being suggested for addressing some complex issues related to distributed resource allocation for QoS (Quality of Service) enhancement. Many p...
– In the past few years considerable demand for user oriented multimedia information systems has developed. These systems must provide a rich set of functionality so that new, co...
Large object-oriented systems have, at least, four characteristics that complicate object communication, i.e the system is distributed and contains large numbers, e.g. thousands, ...
A Grid computing system is a virtual resource framework. Inside the framework, resources are being shared among autonomous domains which can be geographically distributed. One prim...