Sensors are often employed to monitor continuously changing entities like locations of moving objects and temperature. The sensor readings are reported to a database system, and a...
Reynold Cheng, Dmitri V. Kalashnikov, Sunil Prabha...
This paper considers the effect of untyped attackers inside a distributed system where security is enforced by the type system. In previous work we introduced the Key-Based Decentr...
Though adjustable autonomy is hardly a new topic in agent systems, there has been a general lack of consensus on terminology and basic concepts. In this paper, we describe the mul...
Jeffrey M. Bradshaw, Hyuckchul Jung, Shriniwas Kul...
Biomolecular simulations produce more output data than can be managed effectively by traditional computing systems. Researchers need distributed systems that allow the pooling of...
Justin M. Wozniak, Paul Brenner, Douglas Thain, Aa...
The IEEE 802.11e extensions for QoS support in WLAN define the transmission opportunity (TXOP) concept, in order to limit the channel holding times of the contending stations in ...