Instant wireless sensor network (IWSN) is a type of WSN deployed for a class of special applications which have the common requirement on instantly responding for collecting and t...
Yi-Ying Zhang, Xi Luo, Laurence Tianruo Yang, Lei ...
Only a handful of fundamental mechanisms for synchronizing the access of concurrent threads to shared memory are widely implemented and used. These include locks, condition variab...
A drama manager (DM) monitors an interactive experience, such as a computer game, and intervenes to shape the global experience so it satisfies the author's expressive goals ...
Multimedia and real-time services are spreading all over the Internet. The delivery quality of such contents is closely related to its network performance, for example in terms suc...
Economic principles are increasingly being suggested for addressing some complex issues related to distributed resource allocation for QoS (Quality of Service) enhancement. Many p...