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NSDI
2004
15 years 5 months ago
Contract-Based Load Management in Federated Distributed Systems
This paper focuses on load management in looselycoupled federated distributed systems. We present a distributed mechanism for moving load between autonomous participants using bil...
Magdalena Balazinska, Hari Balakrishnan, Michael S...
BMVC
2001
15 years 7 months ago
A SOM Based Approach to Skin Detection with Application in Real Time Systems
A large body of human image processing techniques use skin detection as a first primitive for subsequent feature extraction. Well established methods of colour modelling, such as...
David A. Brown, Ian Craw, Julian Lewthwaite
CCGRID
2010
IEEE
15 years 5 months ago
An Effective Architecture for Automated Appliance Management System Applying Ontology-Based Cloud Discovery
Cloud computing is a computing paradigm which allows access of computing elements and storages on-demand over the Internet. Virtual Appliances, pre-configured, readyto-run applicat...
Amir Vahid Dastjerdi, Sayed Gholam Hassan Tabataba...
SAC
2000
ACM
15 years 9 months ago
A Coordination Language for Collective Agent Based Systems: GroupLog
We describe a language providing concepts for modeling autonomous entities (agents) and cooperating entities (groups). Agents are the execution units of a GroupLog program. Each a...
Fernanda Barbosa, José C. Cunha
PERCOM
2004
ACM
16 years 4 months ago
Supporting Persistent Social Groups in Ubiquitous Computing Environments Using Context-Aware Ephemeral Group Service
In this paper, we analyze the role of the social group in a Ubiquitous Computing (Ubicomp) environment as a source of contextual information. A model is presented to address the s...
Bin Wang, John Bodily, Sandeep K. S. Gupta