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GIS
2010
ACM
13 years 6 months ago
Decentralized querying of topological relations between regions without using localization
This paper proposes an efficient, decentralized algorithm for determining the topological relationship between two regions monitored by a geosensor network. Many centralized algo...
Matt Duckham, Myeong Hun Jeong, Sanjiang Li, Joche...
ATAL
2009
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
Emergent service provisioning and demand estimation through self-organizing agent communities
A major challenge within open markets is the ability to satisfy service demand with an adequate supply of service providers, especially when such demand may be volatile due to cha...
Mariusz Jacyno, Seth Bullock, Michael Luck, Terry ...
WWW
2002
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
The structure of broad topics on the web
The Web graph is a giant social network whose properties have been measured and modeled extensively in recent years. Most such studies concentrate on the graph structure alone, an...
Soumen Chakrabarti, Mukul Joshi, Kunal Punera, Dav...
CORR
2011
Springer
195views Education» more  CORR 2011»
12 years 11 months ago
Collective response of human populations to large-scale emergencies
Despite recent advances in uncovering the quantitative features of stationary human activity patterns, many applications, from pandemic prediction to emergency response, require a...
James P. Bagrow, Dashun Wang, Albert-Lászl&...
INFOCOM
2007
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
Tradeoff Between Lifetime and Rate Allocation in Wireless Sensor Networks: A Cross Layer Approach
— This paper studies the tradeoff between energy consumption and application performance in wireless sensor networks by investigating the interaction between network lifetime max...
Junhua Zhu, Shan Chen, Brahim Bensaou, Ka-Lok Hung