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ALGOSENSORS
2008
Springer
13 years 12 months ago
Probabilistic Protocols for Fair Communication in Wireless Sensor Networks
In this work we present three new distributed, probabilistic data propagation protocols for Wireless Sensor Networks which aim at maximizing the network's operational life and...
Ioannis Chatzigiannakis, Lefteris M. Kirousis, Tho...
ICMAS
2000
13 years 11 months ago
Surplus Equivalence of Leveled Commitment Contracts
In automated negotiation systems consisting of self-interested agents, contracts have traditionally been binding. Leveled commitment contracts--i.e., contracts where each party ca...
Tuomas Sandholm, Yunhong Zhou
CIDR
2009
157views Algorithms» more  CIDR 2009»
13 years 11 months ago
SCADS: Scale-Independent Storage for Social Computing Applications
Collaborative web applications such as Facebook, Flickr and Yelp present new challenges for storing and querying large amounts of data. As users and developers are focused more on...
Michael Armbrust, Armando Fox, David A. Patterson,...
CORR
2006
Springer
142views Education» more  CORR 2006»
13 years 10 months ago
Social Browsing on Flickr
The new social media sites--blogs, wikis, del.icio.us and Flickr, among others--underscore the transformation of the Web to a participatory medium in which users are actively crea...
Kristina Lerman, Laurie Jones
ATAL
2011
Springer
12 years 9 months ago
Information-driven interaction-oriented programming: BSPL, the blindingly simple protocol language
We present a novel approach to interaction-oriented programming based on declaratively representing communication protocols. Our approach exhibits the following distinguishing fea...
Munindar P. Singh