With increasing concerns about the personalized information space, users have been posting various types of information on their own blogs. Due to the domain-specific properties of...
— Lifetime maximization is one key element in the design of sensor-network-based surveillance applications. We propose a protocol for node sleep scheduling that guarantees a boun...
Qing Cao, Tarek F. Abdelzaher, Tian He, John A. St...
This paper discusses the application of robotic technologies to an evacuation assistance task. We describe how this kind of task differs from the more prevalent search and rescue ...
The maintenanceofmaterializedviews in largescale environments composed of numerous heterogeneous information sources ISs, such as the WWW, has importance for the new breed of in...
From personal software to advanced systems, caching mechanisms have steadfastly been a ubiquitous means for reducing workloads. It is no surprise, then, that under the grid and clu...