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ATAL
2008
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Suspending and resuming tasks in BDI agents
Intelligent agents designed to work in complex, dynamic environments must respond robustly and flexibly to environmental and circumstantial changes. An agent must be capable of de...
John Thangarajah, James Harland, David N. Morley, ...
ICC
2007
IEEE
120views Communications» more  ICC 2007»
14 years 1 months ago
Contention-Based Medium Access Control with Physical Layer Assisted Link Differentiation
— In this paper, we develop contention-based medium access control (MAC) schemes for both best-effort data transmissions and delay-sensitive multimedia transmissions over WLANs. ...
Fanglei Sun, Victor O. K. Li, Zhifeng Diao, Zhengy...
IPPS
2007
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
Dynamic Load-Balancing and High Performance Communication in Jcluster
This paper describes the dynamic load-balancing and high performance communication provided in Jcluster, an efficient Java parallel environment. For the efficient loadbalancing,...
Bao-Yin Zhang, Zeyao Mo, Guangwen Yang, Weimin Zhe...
ISLPED
2003
ACM
138views Hardware» more  ISLPED 2003»
14 years 22 days ago
An environmental energy harvesting framework for sensor networks
Energy constrained systems such as sensor networks can increase their usable lifetimes by extracting energy from their environment. However, environmental energy will typically no...
Aman Kansal, Mani B. Srivastava
IPPS
1999
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
The Computational Co-op: Gathering Clusters into a Metacomputer
We explore the creation of a metacomputer by the aggregation of independent sites. Joining a metacomputer is voluntary, and hence it has to be an endeavor that mutually benefits a...
Walfredo Cirne, Keith Marzullo