Many data-driven social and Web applications involve collaboration and coordination. The vision of declarative data-driven coordination (D3C), proposed in [9], is to support coord...
This paper investigates the use of colour and texture cues for segmentation of images within two specified domains. The first is the Sowerby dataset, which contains one hundred co...
Given a set of robots with arbitrary initial location and no agreement on a global coordinate system, convergence requires that all robots asymptotically approach the exact same, ...
Zohir Bouzid, Maria Gradinariu Potop-Butucaru, S&e...
We define some interesting incentive issues that arise in the management of virtual infrastructures. We demonstrate that participants’ decisions about the quantities of infrast...
Next-generation e-Science applications will require the ability to transfer information at high data rates between distributed computing centers and data repositories. To support ...