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WMCSA
2012
IEEE
12 years 6 months ago
Code in the air: simplifying sensing and coordination tasks on smartphones
A growing class of smartphone applications are tasking applications that run continuously, process data from sensors to determine the user’s context (such as location) and activ...
Lenin Ravindranath, Arvind Thiagarajan, Hari Balak...
NOMS
2010
IEEE
201views Communications» more  NOMS 2010»
13 years 8 months ago
Checkpoint-based fault-tolerant infrastructure for virtualized service providers
Crash and omission failures are common in service providers: a disk can break down or a link can fail anytime. In addition, the probability of a node failure increases with the num...
Iñigo Goiri, Ferran Julià, Jordi Gui...
RAS
2007
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13 years 10 months ago
A decomposition approach to multi-vehicle cooperative control
We use a decomposition approach to generate cooperative strategies for a class of multi-vehicle control problems. By introducing a set of tasks to be completed by the team of vehi...
Matthew G. Earl, Raffaello D'Andrea
DAGSTUHL
1994
14 years 6 days ago
A Distributed Control Architecture for Autonomous Robot Systems
The main advantage of distributed controlled robots and subsystems is the decentralized task execution by the system components. This way, properties for the design of flexible co...
Thomas Laengle, Tim Lüth, Ulrich Rembold
AGENTS
2001
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
Learning structured reactive navigation plans from executing MDP navigation policies
Autonomous robots, such as robot office couriers, need navigation routines that support flexible task execution and effective action planning. This paper describes XFRMLEARN, a s...
Michael Beetz, Thorsten Belker
HICSS
2003
IEEE
119views Biometrics» more  HICSS 2003»
14 years 4 months ago
Modeling and Analyzing Communications Infrastructure A Case Study of an International Organization
EnCompass®1 , a web-enabled system for organizational process visualization, analysis, synthesis, and management, provides an interactive vehicle for understanding the influence ...
Michael M. Mann, Ericka Hansen Bryant
DATE
2003
IEEE
189views Hardware» more  DATE 2003»
14 years 4 months ago
Energy-Aware Adaptive Checkpointing in Embedded Real-Time Systems
We present an integrated approach that provides fault tolerance and dynamic power management for a real-time task executing in an embedded system. Fault tolerance is achieved thro...
Ying Zhang, Krishnendu Chakrabarty
ATAL
2009
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
Solving multiagent assignment Markov decision processes
We consider the setting of multiple collaborative agents trying to complete a set of tasks as assigned by a centralized controller. We propose a scalable method called“Assignmen...
Scott Proper, Prasad Tadepalli
BIRTHDAY
2009
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
Asynchronous Congestion Games
We introduce a new class of games, asynchronous congestion games (ACGs). In an ACG, each player has a task that can be carried out by any element of a set of resources, and each r...
Michal Penn, Maria Polukarov, Moshe Tennenholtz
CHI
2007
ACM
14 years 11 months ago
Understanding and developing models for detecting and differentiating breakpoints during interactive tasks
The ability to detect and differentiate breakpoints during task execution is critical for enabling defer-to-breakpoint policies within interruption management. In this work, we ex...
Shamsi T. Iqbal, Brian P. Bailey