—We present a middleware platform for assembling pervasive applications that demand fault-tolerance and adaptivity in distributed, dynamic environments. Unlike typical adaptive m...
Hubert Pham, Justin Mazzola Paluska, Umar Saif, Ch...
In Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN), data gathering using mobile sinks typically incurs constant propagation of sink location indication messages to guide the direction of data repor...
Xinxin Liu, Han Zhao, Xin Yang, Xiaolin Li, Ning W...
Abstract—With the proliferation of wireless multimedia applications, multicast/broadcast has been recognized as an efficient technique to transmit a large volume of data to mult...
Juan Liu, Wei Chen, Zhigang Cao, Ying Jun Zhang, S...
In wireless ad hoc networks, autonomous nodes are reluctant to forward others' packets because of the nodes' limited energy. However, such selfishness and noncooperation ...
For artificial entities to achieve high degrees of autonomy they will need to display appropriate adaptability. In this sense adaptability includes representational flexibility gu...