During conversations, speakers establish their and others’ participant roles (who participates in the conversation and in what capacity)—or “footing” as termed by Goffman...
Many courses on the history of computing are designed for a general student audience, and as such, include fewer technical details than one might find in a typical CS course. Whi...
Geoffrey M. Draper, Robert R. Kessler, Richard F. ...
We propose a self-organizing sleep-wake sensor system that is scalable, easily implemented, and energy conserving. An application of concepts from cellular automata theory account...
Kyung Joon Kwak, Yuliy M. Baryshnikov, Edward G. C...
In today’s complex and highly dynamic computing environments, systems/services have to be constantly adjusted to meet Service Level Agreements (SLAs) and to improve resource uti...
Yuan Chen, Subu Iyer, Xue Liu, Dejan S. Milojicic,...
This paper addresses the problem of identifying the value of information held by a teammate on a distributed, multi-agent team. It focuses on a distributed scheduling task in whic...