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POLICY
2007
Springer
16 years 15 days ago
Proteus: A Semantic Context-Aware Adaptive Policy Model
The growing diffusion of portable devices enables users to benefit from anytime and anywhere impromptu collaboration. Appropriate policy models that take into account the dynamici...
Alessandra Toninelli, Rebecca Montanari, Lalana Ka...
ICRA
2006
IEEE
61views Robotics» more  ICRA 2006»
16 years 12 days ago
Series Elasticity and Actuator Power Output
— In this investigation we put forth a simple model to quantify the capacity of series elasticity to increase peak power output from an actuator. Using a linear bandwidth limited...
Daniel Paluska, Hugh M. Herr
ATAL
2005
Springer
15 years 12 months ago
How local is that optimum? k-optimality for DCOP
In multi-agent systems where sets of joint actions (JAs) are generated, metrics are needed to evaluate these sets and efficiently allocate resources for the many JAs. For the case...
Jonathan P. Pearce, Rajiv T. Maheswaran, Milind Ta...
GRID
2004
Springer
15 years 11 months ago
Phoenix: Making Data-Intensive Grid Applications Fault-Tolerant
A major hurdle facing data intensive grid applications is the appropriate handling of failures that occur in the grid-environment. Implementing the fault-tolerance transparently a...
George Kola, Tevfik Kosar, Miron Livny
IPSN
2004
Springer
15 years 11 months ago
Distributed state representation for tracking problems in sensor networks
This paper investigates the problem of designing decentralized representations to support monitoring and inferences in sensor networks. State-space models of physical phenomena su...
Juan Liu, Maurice Chu, Jie Liu, Jim Reich, Feng Zh...