The first mass-produced pervasive computing devices are starting to appear—the AutoPC, the Internet-connected ScreenFridge, and the combination Microwave Oven/Home Banking term...
Andrew C. Huang, Benjamin C. Ling, Shankar Ponneka...
Abstract-- The vision is tantalizing: a high-performance, scalable, and widely deployed wireless Internet that facilitates services ranging from radically new and unforeseen applic...
Roger Karrer, Ashutosh Sabharwal, Edward W. Knight...
Providing up-to-date input to users’ applications is an important data management problem for a distributed computing environment, where each data storage location and intermedi...
Mitchell D. Theys, Noah Beck, Howard Jay Siegel, M...
Abstract— In the sporadic task model, a task is characterized by three parameters — an execution requirement, a relative deadline, and a period parameter — and has the interp...
Abstract— The problem addressed is the distributed reconfiguration of a metamorphic robot system composed of any number of two dimensional robots (modules). The initial configu...
Jennifer E. Walter, Elizabeth M. Tsai, Nancy M. Am...