This paper uses robot experience to explore key concepts of autonomy, life and being. Unfortunately, there are no widely accepted definitions of autonomy, life or being. Using a ne...
Most authentication protocols designed for ubiquitous computing environments try to solve the problem of intuitive, scalable, secure authentication of wireless communication. Due ...
Current weather forecast and visualization systems lack the scalability to support numerous customized requests for weather research and forecasting, especially at the time of nat...
The convergence of various multimedia communications that includes voice, video and data presents many opportunities for enabling unified communication but paradoxically leads to ...
Paola Boettner, Mansi Gupta, Yali Wu, Andrew A. Al...
This paper investigates scheduling loosely coupled task-bundles in highly heterogeneous distributed systems. Two allocation quality metrics are used in pay-per-service distributed ...