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ICCCN
2008
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
Multi-Hop RFID Wake-Up Radio: Design, Evaluation and Energy Tradeoffs
Abstract—Energy efficiency is a central challenge in batteryoperated sensor networks. Current energy-efficient mechanisms employ either duty cycling, which reduces idle listeni...
Raja Jurdak, Antonio G. Ruzzelli, Gregory M. P. O'...
PODC
2004
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
On the expected payment of mechanisms for task allocation
We study a representative task allocation problem called shortest paths: Let G be a graph in which the edges are owned by self interested agents. The cost of each edge is privatel...
Artur Czumaj, Amir Ronen
ATAL
2008
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Emotionally based multi-agent e-commerce platform
Experiencing and expressing emotions are integral parts of our life. In the retail area of commerce, emotion plays a fundamental role. When we choose or buy a commodity, our choic...
Nicolae Jascanu
SRDS
2008
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
Application-Level Recovery Mechanisms for Context-Aware Pervasive Computing
We identify here various kinds of failure conditions and robustness issues that arise in context-aware pervasive computing applications. Such conditions are related to failures in...
Devdatta Kulkarni, Anand Tripathi
ICPADS
2007
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
Persistence and communication state transfer in an asynchronous pipe mechanism
Abstract— Emergent wide-area distributed systems like computational grids present opportunities for large scientific applications. On these systems, communication mechanisms hav...
Philip Chan, David Abramson