Device Locks are mechanisms used in distributed environments to facilitate mutual exclusion of shared resources. They can further be used to maintain coherence of data that is cac...
Kenneth W. Preslan, Steven R. Soltis, Christopher ...
Wireless sensor networks consist of energy-constrained sensor nodes operating unattended in highly dynamic environments. In this paper, we advocate a systematic decentralized appro...
In large data recording and warehousing environments, it is often advantageous to provide fast, approximate answers to queries, whenever possible. Before DBMSs providing highly-ac...
Laser based people tracking systems have been developed for mobile robotic or intelligent surveillance areas. Existing systems rely on laser point clustering to extract object loc...
Distributed information management plays a fundamental role within the base infrastructure supporting the elderly care domain. Specificities of this domain include the autonomy and...