—In Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks (VANETs), the major communication challenge lies in very poor connectivity, which can be caused by sparse or unbalanced traffic. Deploying supporti...
Nianbo Liu, Ming Liu, Wei Lou, Guihai Chen, Jianno...
Developing middleware services for dynamic distributed systems, e.g., ad-hoc networks, is a challenging task given that such services deal with dynamically changing membership and...
Kishori M. Konwar, Peter M. Musial, Nicolas C. Nic...
Component-orientedprogramming(COP)isactuallyakeyresearchtrackinsoftwareengineering.Avarietyofcomponent-oriented s (COLs) have been proposed with new or adapted abstractions and me...
In autonomous agent systems, internal memory can be an important element to overcome the limitations of purely reactive agent behaviour. This paper presents an analysis of memory r...
In this paper, we propose a novel, cluster-based energy balancing scheme. We assume the existence of a fraction of “strong” nodes in terms of abundant storage, computing and co...