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2008
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
A Lazy Monitoring Approach for Heartbeat-Style Failure Detectors
—Failure detectors are a fundamental part of safe fault-tolerant distributed systems. Many failure detectors use heartbeats to draw conclusions about the state of nodes within a ...
Benjamin Satzger, Andreas Pietzowski, Wolfgang Tru...
ER
2004
Springer
96views Database» more  ER 2004»
14 years 4 months ago
Risk-Driven Conceptual Modeling of Outsourcing Decisions
Abstract. In the current networked world, outsourcing of information technology or even of entire business processes is often a prominent design alternative. In the general case, o...
Pascal van Eck, Roel Wieringa, Jaap Gordijn
ICDCSW
2003
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
Smart Furniture: Improvising Ubiquitous Hot-Spot Environment
We developed Smart Furniture, which extemporaneously converts the legacy non-smart space into a Smart Hot-spot which consists of computational services. Since the Smart Furniture ...
Masaki Ito, Akiko Iwaya, Masato Saito, Kenichi Nak...
CDC
2009
IEEE
168views Control Systems» more  CDC 2009»
14 years 3 months ago
Distributed coverage games for mobile visual sensors (II) : Reaching the set of global optima
— We formulate a coverage optimization problem for mobile visual sensor networks as a repeated multi-player game. Each visual sensor tries to optimize its own coverage while mini...
Minghui Zhu, Sonia Martínez
ICMCS
1999
IEEE
135views Multimedia» more  ICMCS 1999»
14 years 3 months ago
Do Software Engineers Like Multimedia?
Multimedia is not a dream anymore. Nowadays we use images (e.g., GIF, JPEG, and BMP), videos (e.g., MPEG, AVI, and QuickTime), and sounds (e.g., MIDI and WAV) as well as alphanume...
Masahito Hirakawa