Wireless Sensor and Actor Networks (WSANs) are composed of a large number of heterogeneous nodes called sensors and actors. The collaborative operation of sensors enables the dist...
Tommaso Melodia, Dario Pompili, Vehbi C. Gungor, I...
The selection of a cost-minimizing combination of hardware and network components that satisfy organizational requirements is a complex design problem with multiple degrees of fre...
This paper uses partially observable Markov decision processes (POMDP’s) as a basic framework for MultiAgent planning. We distinguish three perspectives: first one is that of a...
Bharaneedharan Rathnasabapathy, Piotr J. Gmytrasie...
In this paper we investigate protocols for scheduling applications that consist of large numbers of identical, independent tasks on large-scale computing platforms. By imposing a ...
Barbara Kreaseck, Larry Carter, Henri Casanova, Je...
A new stochastic clustering algorithm is introduced that aims to locate all the local minima of a multidimensional continuous and differentiable function inside a bounded domain. ...