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SWS
2004
ACM
14 years 23 days ago
Creating non-decomposable stream bundles in multimedia web services using uSMIL
Technical advances in networks, operating systems and web based services are enabling new web-based services such as audiovisual surveillance, monitoring and recording of unfoldin...
Naren Kodali, Csilla Farkas, Duminda Wijesekera
MOBICOM
2010
ACM
13 years 7 months ago
Did you see Bob?: human localization using mobile phones
Finding a person in a public place, such as in a library, conference hotel, or shopping mall, can be difficult. The difficulty arises from not knowing where the person may be at t...
Ionut Constandache, Xuan Bao, Martin Azizyan, Romi...
IAT
2010
IEEE
13 years 5 months ago
Using Negotiation to Reduce Redundant Autonomous Mobile Program Movements
Distributed load managers exhibit thrashing where tasks are repeatedly moved between locations due to incomplete global load information. This paper shows that systems of Autonomou...
Natalia Chechina, Peter King, Phil Trinder
ESAW
2000
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Engineering Social Order
Social Order becomes a major problem in MAS and in computer mediated human interaction. After explaining the notions of Social Order and Social Control, I claim that there are mult...
Cristiano Castelfranchi
CORR
2010
Springer
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13 years 7 months ago
Dependability in Aggregation by Averaging
Abstract. Aggregation is an important building block of modern distributed applications, allowing the determination of meaningful properties (e.g. network size, total storage capac...
Paulo Jesus, Carlos Baquero, Paulo Sérgio A...