Unstructured peer-to-peer lookup systems incur small constant overhead per single join or leave operation, and can easily support keyword searches. Hence, they are suitable for dy...
— Recent years have seen tremendous growth in the deployment of Wireless Local Area Networks (WLANs). An important design issue in such networks is that of distributed scheduling...
We propose a distributed on-demand power-management protocol for collecting data in sensor networks. The protocol aims to reduce power consumption while supporting fluctuating dem...
Condor provides high throughput computing by leveraging idlecycles on off-the-shelf desktop machines. It also supports flocking, a mechanism for sharing resources among Condor po...
Embodied agents or humanoid avatars may effectively be used to communicate with human users. Currently there is a wide range of specification formalisms and scripting languages f...