: A Peer-to-peer Data Network (PDN) is an open and evolving society of peer nodes that assemble into a network to share their data for mutual benefit. PDNs are enabled by distribu...
Clusters of high-end workstations and PCs are currently used in many application domains to perform large-scale computations or as scalable servers for I/O bound tasks. Although cl...
act The Neptune system is a mobile robot system used to remotely inspect above-ground storage tanks (ASTs) while immersed in the petroleum product, in order to ascertain from the i...
This paper describes an approach to robotic control that is patterned after models of human skill acquisition. The intent is to develop robots capable of learning how to accomplis...
Abstract—Transactional Memory (TM) is a promising technique that addresses the difficulty of parallel programming. Since TM takes responsibility for all concurrency control, TM ...