Abstract—This paper presents a sensor-based, networked embedded system, referred to as the Particle computer system. It is comprised of tiny wireless sensor nodes, capable of com...
Christian Decker, Albert Krohn, Michael Beigl, Tob...
Design for performance-optimization of programmable, semicustom SoCs requires the ability to model and optimize the behavior of the system as a whole. Neither the hardware-testben...
JoAnn M. Paul, Christopher M. Eatedali, Donald E. ...
Resource allocation is a key problem in autonomic computing. In this paper we use a data center scenario to motivate the need for decentralization and cooperative negotiation, and...
Craig Boutilier, Rajarshi Das, Jeffrey O. Kephart,...
—Spatial computing systems are characterized by the extended physical environment in which they exist and function. Often this environment can be manipulated in various ways by t...
Experimental computer systems research typically ignores the end-user, modeling him, if at all, in overly simple ways. We argue that this (1) results in inadequate performance eva...
Peter A. Dinda, Gokhan Memik, Robert P. Dick, Bin ...