— Battery power is an important resource in ad hoc networks. It has been observed that in ad hoc networks, energy consumption does not reflect the communication activities in th...
Attacking bottlenecks in modern processors is difficult because many microarchitectural events overlap with each other. This parallelism makes it difficult to both (a) assign a ...
This work introduces a combinatorial optimization problem called Mars Express Memory Dumping Problem (Mex-Mdp), which arises in the European Space Agency program Mars Express. It c...
Intensive computations required for sensing and processing perceptual information can impose significant burdens on personal computer systems. We explore several policies for sel...
E-commerce strategists advise companies to create virtual communities for their customers. But what is involved in establishing and maintaining virtual communities? This paper add...