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KSEM
2010
Springer
13 years 6 months ago
Autonomy: Life and Being
This paper uses robot experience to explore key concepts of autonomy, life and being. Unfortunately, there are no widely accepted definitions of autonomy, life or being. Using a ne...
Mary-Anne Williams
ECAL
2003
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
Artificial Metabolism: Towards True Energetic Autonomy in Artificial Life
Abstract. This paper reports on the proof-of-concept work to produce an energetically autonomous robot employing an artificial metabolic system using Microbial Fuel Cells. The pres...
Ioannis Ieropoulos, Chris Melhuish, John Greenman
DELOS
2004
13 years 9 months ago
Peer-to-Peer Overlays and Data Integration in a Life Science Grid
Databases and Grid computing are a good match. With the service orientation of Grid computing, the complexity of maintaining and integrating databases can be kept away from the act...
Curt Cramer, Andrea Schafferhans, Thomas Fuhrmann
COMPSAC
2002
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
Dependency Analysis and Visualization as Tools to Prolong System Life
This paper describes our experience using dependency analysis and visualization as a tool to identify intervention points for migrating applications to environments where they can...
Dave McComb, Simon Robe, Simon Hoare, Stew Crawfor...
OSDI
2004
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Life or Death at Block-Level
A fundamental piece of information required in intelligent storage systems is the liveness of data. We formalize the notion of liveness within storage, and present two classes of ...
Muthian Sivathanu, Lakshmi N. Bairavasundaram, And...