This paper addresses the problem of reducing the hysteresis found in the actuation of most smart materials. They are divided in two groups: systems with no saturation (e.g. piezoe...
If a groupware system is to be effectively used, especially over a wide-are network such as the Internet, where the quality of networking and computing resources are unpredictable...
This paper shows how a recently introduced class of applications can be solved by constraint programming. This new type of application is due to the emergence of special real-time...
One role for workload generation is as a means for understanding how servers and networks respond to variation in load. This enables management and capacity planning based on curr...
We consider the problem of efficient information retrieval in asymmetric communication environments where multiple clients with limited resources retrieve information from a power...