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IROS
2007
IEEE
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14 years 2 months ago
LIVS: Local Interaction via Virtual Stigmergy coordination in distributed search and collective cleanup
Abstract— Distributed coordination is critical for a multirobot system in hazardous waste cleanup under a dynamic environment. To achieve higher efficiency as well as robustness,...
Yan Meng, Jing Gan
HT
2009
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
Statistical properties of inter-arrival times distribution in social tagging systems
Folksonomies provide a rich source of data to study social patterns taking place on the World Wide Web. Here we study the temporal patterns of users’ tagging activity. We show t...
Andrea Capocci, Andrea Baldassarri, Vito Domenico ...
LISA
2003
13 years 9 months ago
Virtual Appliances for Deploying and Maintaining Software
This paper attempts to address the complexity of system administration by making the labor of applying software updates independent of the number of computers on which the softwar...
Constantine P. Sapuntzakis, David Brumley, Ramesh ...
JPDC
2008
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13 years 8 months ago
A Grid-based Virtual Reactor: Parallel performance and adaptive load balancing
This paper addresses the problem of porting distributed parallel applications to the Grid. One of the challenges we address is the change from static homogeneous cluster environmen...
Vladimir Korkhov, Valeria V. Krzhizhanovskaya, Pet...
ISADS
2003
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
Distributed Motion Coordination with Co-Fields: A Case Study in Urban Traffic Management
Coordinating the activities of distributed autonomous entities challenges traditional approaches to distributed coordination and calls for new paradigms and supporting middleware....
Marco Mamei, Franco Zambonelli, Letizia Leonardi