Abstract. We present our approach for deploying and managing distributed component-based applications. A Desired State Description (DSD), written in a high-level declarative langua...
In ergodic MDPs we consider stationary distributions of policies that coincide in all but n states, in which one of two possible actions is chosen. We give conditions and formulas...
Thispaper presents an information-theoreticstudy ofvideo codecs that are based on the principle of source coding with side information at the decoder In contrast to the classical ...
Prakash Ishwar, Vinod M. Prabhakaran, Kannan Ramch...
Recently proposed techniques for peak power management [5] involve centralized decision-making and assume quick evaluation of the various power management states. These techniques...
— When an emergency occurs within a building, it may be initially safer to send autonomous mobile nodes, instead of human responders, to explore the area and identify hazards and...