This paper presents Timed Quorum System (TQS), a quorum system for large-scale and dynamic systems. TQS provides guarantees that two quorums, accessed at instances of time that are...
— A simple approach for mobile robots to exploit multipath fading in order to improve received radio signal strength (RSS), is presented. The strategy is to sample the RSS at dis...
We are exploring the differences between expert and less expert tutors with two goals: cognitive (what does tutoring tell us about learning) and applied (which features of tutorin...
Barbara Di Eugenio, Trina C. Kershaw, Xin Lu, Andr...
The paper studies the problem of maintaining external dynamic dictionaries with variable length keys. We introduce a new type of balanced trees, called S(b)-trees, which generaliz...
A network is k-connected if it remains connected after the removal of any k - 1 of its nodes. Assume that n sensors, modeled here as (omni)directional antennas, are dropped random...