Abstract—We study the ubiquitous data collection for mobile users in wireless sensor networks. People with handheld devices can easily interact with the network and collect data....
Every year almost 10 million children die before reaching the age of five despite the fact that two-thirds of these deaths could be prevented by effective low-cost interventions. ...
Brian DeRenzi, Neal Lesh, Tapan S. Parikh, Clayton...
Abstract—Social conventions are useful self-sustaining protocols for groups to coordinate behavior without a centralized entity enforcing coordination. We perform an in-depth stu...
Title of Thesis: DISTRIBUTED TRUST EVALUATION IN AD-HOC NETWORKS Georgios E. Theodorakopoulos, Master of Science, 2004 Thesis directed by: Professor John S. Baras Department of El...
This paper unifies two recent strands of research in multiagent system design. One, commitments are widely recognized as capturing important aspects of interactions among agents,...