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COOPIS
2004
IEEE
15 years 10 months ago
A Distributed and Parallel Component Architecture for Stream-Oriented Applications
Abstract. This paper introduces ThreadMill - a distributed and parallel component architecture for applications that process large volumes of streamed (time-sequenced) data, such a...
Paulo Barthelmess, Clarence A. Ellis
ATAL
2010
Springer
15 years 7 months ago
Collective decision-making in multi-agent systems by implicit leadership
Coordination within decentralized agent groups frequently requires reaching global consensus, but typical hierarchical approaches to reaching such decisions can be complex, slow, ...
Chih-Han Yu, Justin Werfel, Radhika Nagpal
ADHOC
2006
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15 years 6 months ago
A probabilistic algorithm for efficient and robust data propagation in wireless sensor networks
We study the problem of data propagation in sensor networks, comprised of a large number of very small and low-cost nodes, capable of sensing, communicating and computing. The dis...
Ioannis Chatzigiannakis, Tassos Dimitriou, Sotiris...
CCE
2004
15 years 6 months ago
Pharmaceutical supply chains: key issues and strategies for optimisation
Supply chain optimisation is now a major research theme in process operations and management. A great deal of research has been undertaken on facility location and design, invento...
Nilay Shah
VLDB
2002
ACM
154views Database» more  VLDB 2002»
15 years 6 months ago
I/O-Conscious Data Preparation for Large-Scale Web Search Engines
Given that commercial search engines cover billions of web pages, efficiently managing the corresponding volumes of disk-resident data needed to answer user queries quickly is a f...
Maxim Lifantsev, Tzi-cker Chiueh