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ICPP
2000
IEEE
15 years 10 months ago
A Problem-Specific Fault-Tolerance Mechanism for Asynchronous, Distributed Systems
The idle computers on a local area, campus area, or even wide area network represent a significant computational resource--one that is, however, also unreliable, heterogeneous, an...
Adriana Iamnitchi, Ian T. Foster
INFOCOM
2010
IEEE
15 years 4 months ago
Efficient Continuous Scanning in RFID Systems
RFID is an emerging technology with many potential applications such as inventory management for supply chain. In practice, these applications often need a series of continuous sca...
Bo Sheng, Qun Li, Weizhen Mao
EUROSSC
2008
Springer
15 years 7 months ago
Exploring the Design of Pay-Per-Use Objects in the Construction Domain
Equipment used in the construction domain is often hired in order to reduce cost and maintenance overhead. The cost of hire is dependent on the time period involved and does not ta...
Daniel Fitton, Vasughi Sundramoorthy, Gerd Kortuem...
IPSN
2004
Springer
15 years 12 months ago
Flexible power scheduling for sensor networks
We propose a distributed on-demand power-management protocol for collecting data in sensor networks. The protocol aims to reduce power consumption while supporting fluctuating dem...
Barbara Hohlt, Lance Doherty, Eric A. Brewer
ICADL
2003
Springer
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15 years 11 months ago
Metadata++: A Scalable Hierarchical Framework for Digital Libraries
: Metadata++ is a digital library system that we are developing to serve the needs of the United States Department of Agriculture Forest Service, the United States Department of th...
Mathew Weaver, Lois M. L. Delcambre, Timothy Tolle