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ALGOSENSORS
2009
Springer
15 years 11 months ago
Near-Optimal Radio Use for Wireless Network Synchronization
In this paper we consider the model of communication where wireless devices can either switch their radios off to save energy (and hence, can neither send nor receive messages), o...
Milan Bradonjic, Eddie Kohler, Rafail Ostrovsky
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ALGOSENSORS
2009
Springer
15 years 11 months ago
Approximating Barrier Resilience in Wireless Sensor Networks
Barrier coverage in a sensor network has the goal of ensuring that all paths through the surveillance domain joining points in some start region S to some target region T will inte...
Sergey Bereg, David G. Kirkpatrick
170
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W2GIS
2009
Springer
15 years 11 months ago
Database and Representation Issues in Geographic Information Systems (GIS)
Abstract. A review is provided of some database and representation issues involved in the implementation of geographic information systems (GIS). The increasing popularity of web-b...
Hanan Samet
WINE
2009
Springer
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15 years 11 months ago
Computing Optimal Contracts in Series-Parallel Heterogeneous Combinatorial Agencies
We study an economic setting in which a principal motivates a team of strategic agents to exert costly effort toward the success of a joint project. The action taken by each agent...
Yuval Emek, Michal Feldman
ATAL
2009
Springer
15 years 11 months ago
Perspectives and challenges of agent-based simulation as a tool for economics and other social sciences
This paper argues that the agent-based simulation approach is just the one appropriate to the social sciences (including economics). Although there were many predecessor approache...
Klaus G. Troitzsch