—Interest management is essential for real-time large-scale distributed virtual environments (DVEs) which seeks to filter irrelevant messages on the network. Many existing inter...
This paper presents new mechanisms for dynamic resource management in a cluster manager called Clusteron-Demand (COD). COD allocates servers from a common pool to multiple virtual...
Jeffrey S. Chase, David E. Irwin, Laura E. Grit, J...
Recent advances in high-speed networks, rapid improvements in microprocessor design, and availability of highly performing clustering software implementations enables cost-effecti...
Ghassan Fadlallah, Michel Lavoie, Louis-A. Dessain...
A virtual fence is created by applying an aversive stimulus to an animal when it approaches a predefined boundary. It is implemented by a small animal-borne computer system with a...
Zack J. Butler, Peter I. Corke, Ronald A. Peterson...
Pervasive computing applications are increasingly leveraging contextual information from several sources to provide users with behavior appropriate to the environment in which the...