Increasingly, applications need to be able to self-reconfigure in response to changing requirements and environmental conditions. Autonomic computing has been proposed as a means...
Andres J. Ramirez, David B. Knoester, Betty H. C. ...
Market-based mechanisms can be used to coordinate self-interested multi-robot systems in fully distributed environments, where by self-interested we mean that each robot agent att...
Large-scale wireless sensor networks represent a new generation of real-time embedded systems with significantly different communication constraints from traditional networked sys...
Chenyang Lu, Brian M. Blum, Tarek F. Abdelzaher, J...
Sparse wireless sensor networks (WSNs) are being effectively used in several applications, which include transportation, urban safety, environment monitoring, and many others. Sens...
Mario Di Francesco, Kunal Shah, Mohan Kumar, Giuse...
Distributed databases operating over wide-area networks such as the Internet, must deal with the unpredictable nature of the performance of communication. The response times of acc...
Laurent Amsaleg, Michael J. Franklin, Anthony Toma...