The layered architecture of middleware platforms (such as CORBA, SOAP, J2EE) is a mixed blessing. On the one hand, layers provide services such as demarshaling, session management...
Network protocols are typically designed and tested individually. In practice, however, applications use multiple protocols concurrently. This discrepancy can lead to failures fro...
Jung Il Choi, Maria A. Kazandjieva, Mayank Jain, P...
Ubiquitous context-aware computing systems present several challenges in their construction. Principal among them is the tradeoff between easily providing new contextaware service...
William G. Griswold, Robert T. Boyer, Steven W. Br...
We propose a new link metric called normalized advance (NADV) for geographic routing in multihop wireless networks. NADV selects neighbors with the optimal trade-off between proxi...
Seungjoon Lee, Bobby Bhattacharjee, Suman Banerjee
A perennial challenge in creating and using complex autonomous agents is following their choices of actions as the world changes dynamically and understanding why they act as they ...