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EUC
2006
Springer
15 years 10 months ago
DiCa: Distributed Tag Access with Collision-Avoidance Among Mobile RFID Readers
Abstract. Advances in wireless and mobile communication technologies have enabled the development of various RFID-based systems and applications in addition to the extension of the...
Kwang-il Hwang, Kyung Tae Kim, Doo Seop Eom
ATAL
2008
Springer
15 years 8 months ago
On k-optimal distributed constraint optimization algorithms: new bounds and algorithms
Distributed constraint optimization (DCOP) is a promising approach to coordination, scheduling and task allocation in multi agent networks. In large-scale or low-bandwidth network...
Emma Bowring, Jonathan P. Pearce, Christopher Port...
ATAL
2008
Springer
15 years 8 months ago
A scalable and distributed model for self-organization and self-healing
As the ability to produce a large number of small, simple robotic agents improves, it becomes essential to control the behavior of these agents in such a way that the sum of their...
Michael Rubenstein, Wei-Min Shen
FPL
2008
Springer
111views Hardware» more  FPL 2008»
15 years 7 months ago
Sampling from the exponential distribution using independent Bernoulli variates
The exponential distribution is a key distribution in many event-driven Monte-Carlo simulations, where it is used to model the time between random events in the system. This paper...
David B. Thomas, Wayne Luk
DBSEC
2009
110views Database» more  DBSEC 2009»
15 years 7 months ago
Distributed Privilege Enforcement in PACS
Abstract. We present a new access control mechanism for P2P networks with distributed enforcement, called P2P Access Control System (PACS). PACS enforces powerful access control mo...
Christoph Sturm, Ela Hunt, Marc H. Scholl