Location management is an essential service in mobile networks. It provides mechanisms for recording and querying location of mobile units in the network. This is needed for estab...
A consistency protocol can be termed symmetric if all processors are treated identically when they access common resources. By contrast, asymmetric protocols usually assign a home...
The most commonly deployed web service applications employ client-server communication patterns, with clients running remotely and services hosted in data centers. In this paper, ...
Ken Birman, Jared Cantwell, Daniel Freedman, Qi Hu...
Sensor network is a novel technology about acquiring and processing information. This paper introduces the basic interaction patterns between requesters and providers of services ...
Dialog modeling in robotics suffers from lack of generalizability, due to the fact that the dialog is heavily influenced by the tasks the robot is able to perform. We introduce in...