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ATAL
2003
Springer
14 years 24 days ago
Minimizing communication cost in a distributed Bayesian network using a decentralized MDP
In complex distributed applications, a problem is often decomposed into a set of subproblems that are distributed to multiple agents. We formulate this class of problems with a tw...
Jiaying Shen, Victor R. Lesser, Norman Carver
MOBIHOC
2003
ACM
14 years 7 months ago
Localization from mere connectivity
It is often useful to know the geographic positions of nodes in a communications network, but adding GPS receivers or other sophisticated sensors to every node can be expensive. W...
Yi Shang, Wheeler Ruml, Ying Zhang, Markus P. J. F...
HICSS
2007
IEEE
111views Biometrics» more  HICSS 2007»
14 years 1 months ago
Connected Giving: Ordinary People Coordinating Disaster Relief on the Internet
The Internet is widely valued for distributing control over information to a lateral network of individuals, but it is not clear how these networks can most effectively organize t...
Cristen Torrey, Moira Burke, Matthew L. Lee, Anind...
CLUSTER
2006
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
Positioning Dynamic Storage Caches for Transient Data
Simulations, experiments and observatories are generating a deluge of scientific data. Even more staggering is the ever growing application demand to process and assimilate these...
Sudharshan S. Vazhkudai, Douglas Thain, Xiaosong M...
JCST
2008
159views more  JCST 2008»
13 years 7 months ago
Coordinated Workload Scheduling in Hierarchical Sensor Networks for Data Fusion Applications
To minimize the execution time of a sensing task over a multi-hop hierarchical sensor network, we present a coordinated scheduling method following the divisible load scheduling p...
Xiao-Lin Li, Jiannong Cao