Recent years have witnessed the pilot deployments of audio or low-rate video wireless sensor networks for a class of mission-critical applications including search and rescue, sec...
As raw system and network performance continues to improve at exponential rates, the utility of many services is increasingly limited by availability rather than performance. A ke...
Sensemaking tasks require users to perform complex research behaviors to gather and comprehend information from many sources. Such tasks are common and include, for example, resea...
Dynamic resource provisioning aims at maintaining the endto-end response time of a web application within a predeļ¬ned SLA. Although the topic has been well studied for monolithi...
Wireless Sensor Actuator Networks (WSANs) extend wireless sensor networks through actuation capability. Designing robust logic for WSANs however is challenging since nodes can aļ¬...