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DANCE
2002
IEEE
15 years 10 months ago
Active Names: Flexible Location and Transport of Wide-Area Resources
In this paper, we explore flexible name resolution as a way of supporting extensibility for wide-area distributed services. Our approach, called Active Names, maps names to a cha...
Amin Vahdat, Michael Dahlin, Thomas E. Anderson, A...
IAT
2007
IEEE
15 years 11 months ago
Automatically Costed Autonomous Mobility
To share resources in open distributed systems we have developed autonomous mobile programs, which periodically use a cost model to decide where to execute in a network. In additi...
Xiao Yan Deng, Greg Michaelson, Philip W. Trinder
GD
2005
Springer
15 years 11 months ago
A Mixed-Integer Program for Drawing High-Quality Metro Maps
In this paper we investigate the problem of drawing metro maps which is defined as follows. Given a planar graph G of maximum degree 8 with its embedding and vertex locations (e.g...
Martin Nöllenburg, Alexander Wolff
DCAI
2008
15 years 7 months ago
The Intelligent Butler: A Virtual Agent for Disabled and Elderly People Assistance
Abstract. Social assistance constitutes an increasing problem in developed countries, which can be considered from two dimensions: the home and the hospital frameworks. Anyway, mos...
Gabriel Fiol-Roig, Diana Arellano, Francisco J. Pe...
ADBIS
2000
Springer
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15 years 9 months ago
Data Organization Issues for Location-Dependent Queries in Mobile Computing
We consider queries which originate from a mobile unit and whose result depends on the location of the user who initiates the query. Example of such a query is How many people are ...
Sanjay Kumar Madria, Bharat K. Bhargava, Evaggelia...