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ICDCS
1999
IEEE
15 years 2 months ago
HiFi: A New Monitoring Architecture for Distributed Systems Management
With the increasing complexity of large-scale distributed (LSD) systems, an efficient monitoring mechanism has become an essential service for improving the performance and reliab...
Ehab S. Al-Shaer, Hussein M. Abdel-Wahab, Kurt Mal...
CASCON
2006
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14 years 11 months ago
A model and architecture for situation determination
Automatically determining the situation of an ad-hoc group of people and devices within a smart environment is a significant challenge in pervasive computing systems. Current appro...
Graham Thomson, Sotirios Terzis, Paddy Nixon
MOBISYS
2009
ACM
15 years 10 months ago
R2D2: regulating beam shape and rate as directionality meets diversity
We design, implement, and evaluate a vehicular communication system that improves uplink connectivity through multi-lobe beam pattern switching on a smart antenna. Directionality ...
Kishore Ramachandran, Ravi Kokku, Karthikeyan Sund...
EWSA
2004
Springer
15 years 3 months ago
Distilling Scenarios from Patterns for Software Architecture Evaluation - A Position Paper
Software architecture (SA) evaluation is a quality assurance technique that is increasingly attracting significant research and commercial interests. A number of SA evaluation meth...
Liming Zhu, Muhammad Ali Babar, D. Ross Jeffery
AAAI
1994
14 years 11 months ago
An Experiment in the Design of Software Agents
We describe a bottom-up approach to the design of software agents. We built and tested an agent system that addresses the real-world problem of handling the activities involved in...
Henry A. Kautz, Bart Selman, Michael H. Coen, Stev...