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DCOSS
2006
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Efficient In-Network Processing Through Local Ad-Hoc Information Coalescence
We consider in-network processing via local message passing. The considered setting involves a set of sensors each of which can communicate with a subset of other sensors. There is...
Onur Savas, Murat Alanyali, Venkatesh Saligrama
IFIP
2004
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
The Driving Philosophers
We introduce a new synchronization problem in mobile ad-hoc systems: the Driving Philosophers. In this problem, an unbounded number of driving philosophers (processes) access a rou...
Sébastien Baehni, Roberto Baldoni, Rachid G...
ER
2006
Springer
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13 years 9 months ago
A More Expressive Softgoal Conceptualization for Quality Requirements Analysis
Initial software quality requirements tend to be imprecise, subjective, idealistic, and context-specific. An extended characterization of the common Softgoal concept is proposed fo...
Ivan Jureta, Stéphane Faulkner, Pierre-Yves...
WWW
2003
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
The chatty web: emergent semantics through gossiping
This paper describes a novel approach for obtaining semantic interoperability among data sources in a bottom-up, semiautomatic manner without relying on pre-existing, global seman...
Karl Aberer, Manfred Hauswirth, Philippe Cudr&eacu...
SIGIR
1993
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
A Model of Information Retrieval Based on a Terminological Logic
According to the logical model of Information Retrieval (IR), the task of IR can be described as the extraction, from a given document base, of those documents d that, given a que...
Carlo Meghini, Fabrizio Sebastiani, Umberto Stracc...