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2008
IEEE
16 years 4 days 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»
15 years 11 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
15 years 11 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»
15 years 10 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»
15 years 10 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