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DANCE
2002
IEEE
14 years 2 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
14 years 4 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
14 years 3 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
13 years 11 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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14 years 2 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...