Several works on grid computing have been proposed in the last years. However, most of them, including available software, can not deal properly with some issues related to contro...
This paper addresses the cooperative transport of a heavy object, called prey, towards a sporadically changing target location by a group of robots. The study is focused on the sit...
As networks and the use of communication within applications continue to grow and find more uses, so too does the demand for more control and manageability of various "system...
Richard E. Schantz, John A. Zinky, David A. Karr, ...
Quality of Service (QoS) is essential to datacenters, which requires effective schemes to manage the flows among numerous servers. However, existing management techniques mainly fo...
Baohua Yang, Guodong Li, Yaxuan Qi, Yibo Xue, Jun ...
We present a simple approach for implementing flexible locking strategies in a system of components, which may themselves be composite objects. The approach is flexible in that a ...