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IFIP
2004
Springer
14 years 2 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...
AOIS
2006
13 years 10 months ago
ToothAgent: A Multi-agent System for Virtual Communities Support
People tend to form social networks within geographical areas. This can be explained by the fact that generally geographical localities correspond to common interests (e.g. studen...
Volha Bryl, Paolo Giorgini, Stefano Fante
JSW
2008
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13 years 9 months ago
Implicit Authorization for Social Location Disclosure
Being increasingly equipped with highly-accurate positioning technologies, today's mobile phones enable their owners to transmit their current position over the cellular netwo...
Georg Treu, Florian Fuchs, Christiane Dargatz
GI
2001
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
Towards a Novel Architecture to Support Universal Location Awareness
—The rapid advances in a wide range of wireless access technologies along with an industry-wide IP-convergence have set up the stage for context-aware computing. The “locationâ...
Amiya Bhattacharya, Abhishek Roy, Sajal K. Das
ADT
2008
13 years 9 months ago
Analytical investigation of intersection based range-free localization
By range-free localization, the positions of a mobile device can be limited to the coverage area of a radio access network cell. The drawback of such approach is the coarseness of ...
Michel Sortais, Sven D. Hermann, Adam Wolisz