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EDCC
2010
Springer
15 years 11 months ago
Dependability Analysis of Diffusion Protocols in Wireless Networks with Heterogeneous Node Capabilities
Wireless networks are starting to be populated by interconnected devices that reveal remarkable hardware and software differences. This fact raises a number of questions on the ap...
Paolo Masci, Silvano Chiaradonna, Felicita Di Gian...
DCOSS
2006
Springer
15 years 10 months ago
Agimone: Middleware Support for Seamless Integration of Sensor and IP Networks
The scope of wireless sensor network (WSN) applications has traditionally been restricted by physical sensor coverage and limited computational power. Meanwhile, IP networks like t...
Gregory Hackmann, Chien-Liang Fok, Gruia-Catalin R...
ATAL
2009
Springer
16 years 1 months ago
Perspectives and challenges of agent-based simulation as a tool for economics and other social sciences
This paper argues that the agent-based simulation approach is just the one appropriate to the social sciences (including economics). Although there were many predecessor approache...
Klaus G. Troitzsch
AAAI
2006
15 years 8 months ago
Characterizing Data Complexity for Conjunctive Query Answering in Expressive Description Logics
Description Logics (DLs) are the formal foundations of the standard web ontology languages OWL-DL and OWL-Lite. In the Semantic Web and other domains, ontologies are increasingly ...
Magdalena Ortiz, Diego Calvanese, Thomas Eiter
POPL
2006
ACM
16 years 6 months ago
A hierarchical model of data locality
In POPL 2002, Petrank and Rawitz showed a universal result-finding optimal data placement is not only NP-hard but also impossible to approximate within a constant factor if P = NP...
Chengliang Zhang, Chen Ding, Mitsunori Ogihara, Yu...