This paper presents a mechanism to run parallel applications in heterogeneous, dynamic environments while maintaining thread synchrony. A heterogeneous software DSM is used to pro...
: When designing a mobile robotic team, an engineer is faced with many design choices. This paper discusses the design of a team consisting of two different models of robots with ...
Bradley Kratochvil, Ian T. Burt, Andrew Drenner, D...
In an open distributed system, computational resources are peer-owned, and distributed over time and space. The fact that these resources can dynamically join or leave the system (...
This paper describes the context-aware mobile tourist application COMPASS that adapts its services to the user’s needs based on both the user’s interests and his current contex...
Mark van Setten, Stanislav Pokraev, Johan Koolwaai...
A new sensor network architecture called active sensor network (ASN) is proposed in this paper. By integrating multiple small, sensor network-friendly mobile robots into a traditi...