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ICCCN
2008
IEEE
15 years 9 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
15 years 8 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
15 years 5 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
15 years 9 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
15 years 9 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