Worldwide competition originated the development of Integrated E-Supply Chains (IESC) that are distributed manufacturing systems integrating international logistics and informatio...
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Millions of small heterogeneous computers are poised to spread into the infrastructure of our society. Though mostly inconspicuous today, disguised as nothing more than PIM (perso...
Peter Wyckoff, Stephen W. McLaughry, Tobin J. Lehm...
Push-to-Talk (PTT) is a useful capability for rapidly deployable wireless mesh networks used by first responders. PTT allows several users to speak with each other while using a si...
The MapReduce distributed programming framework has become popular, despite evidence that current implementations are inefficient, requiring far more hardware than a traditional r...
Eaman Jahani, Michael J. Cafarella, Christopher R&...