In this paper we explore the mobility of a mobile sink in a wireless sensor network (WSN) to prolong the network lifetime. Since the mechanical movement of mobile sink is driven by...
Given a rectangular boundary partitioned into rectangles, the Minimum-Length Corridor (MLC-R) problem consists of finding a corridor of least total length. A corridor is a set of ...
This paper is about business modelling and negotiation protocol design in distributed scheduling, where individual agents have individual (potentially conflicting) interests. It i...
Edward P. K. Tsang, Timothy Gosling, Botond Virgin...
We consider the problem of estimating the relative orientation of a number of individual photocells -or pixels- that hold fixed relative positions. The photocells measure the inte...
Personal gazetteers record individuals' most important places, such as home, work, grocery store, etc. Using personal gazetteers in location-aware applications offers additio...
Changqing Zhou, Dan Frankowski, Pamela J. Ludford,...