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AUTONOMICS
2008
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
Tracking and tracing containers through distributed sensor middleware
In a container transport system, wireless sensor networks (WSNs) can be used for monitoring products while they are being transported. To be commercially interesting, these WSNs m...
Klaas Thoelen, Sam Michiels, Wouter Joosen
MOBISYS
2006
ACM
14 years 7 months ago
FireWxNet: a multi-tiered portable wireless system for monitoring weather conditions in wildland fire environments
In this paper we present FireWxNet, a multi-tiered portable wireless system for monitoring weather conditions in rugged wildland fire environments. FireWxNet provides the fire fig...
Carl Hartung, Richard Han, Carl Seielstad, Saxon H...
ATAL
2008
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Mobile opportunistic commerce: mechanisms, architecture, and application
We present mechanisms, architectures, and an implementation addressing challenges with mobile opportunistic commerce centering on markets and mechanisms that support the procureme...
Ece Kamar, Eric Horvitz, Chris Meek
JSSPP
2007
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
New Challenges of Parallel Job Scheduling
Abstract. The workshop on job scheduling strategies for parallel processing (JSSPP) studies the myriad aspects of managing resources on parallel and distributed computers. These st...
Eitan Frachtenberg, Uwe Schwiegelshohn
EUROPAR
2009
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
Provider-Independent Use of the Cloud
Abstract. Utility computing offers researchers and businesses the potential of significant cost-savings in that it is possible for them to match the cost of their computing and s...
Terence J. Harmer, Peter Wright, Christina Cunning...