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ICPPW
1999
IEEE
15 years 11 months ago
On Dynamically Adapting Registration Areas to User Mobility Patterns in PCS Networks
Location management is an essential service in mobile networks. It provides mechanisms for recording and querying location of mobile units in the network. This is needed for estab...
Georgios Varsamopoulos, Sandeep K. S. Gupta
AGENTS
1999
Springer
15 years 11 months ago
Shopbot Economics
Abstract. Shopbots are agents that search the Internet for information pertaining to the price and quality of goods or services. With the advent of shopbots, a dramatic reduction i...
Jeffrey O. Kephart, Amy R. Greenwald
RTAS
1998
IEEE
15 years 11 months ago
FARA - A Framework for Adaptive Resource Allocation in Complex Real-Time Systems
This paper introduces FARA, a framework that provides abstractions and mechanisms for building integrated adaptation and resource allocation services in complex real-time systems....
Daniela Rosu, Karsten Schwan, Sudhakar Yalamanchil...
VLDB
1992
ACM
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15 years 10 months ago
Principles of Transaction-Based On-Line Reorganization
For very large databases such as those used by banks and airlines, cost considerations may forbid shutting down the service for a long period of time and reorganizing off-line. Si...
Betty Salzberg, Allyn Dimock
EICS
2009
ACM
15 years 10 months ago
An infrastructure for experience centered agile prototyping of ambient intelligence
Ubiquitous computing poses new usability challenges that cut across design and development. We are particularly interested in "spaces" enhanced with sensors, public disp...
José Luís Silva, José Creissa...