Commercial servers, such as database or application servers, often attempt to improve performance via multithreading. Improper multi-threading architectures can incur contention, ...
This paper describes a completely implemented, fully autonomous software system for soccer playing quadruped robots. The system includes real-time color vision, probabilistic loca...
This paper proposes a service-oriented software reliability model that dynamically evaluates the reliability of Web services. There are two kinds of Web services: atomic services ...
Wei-Tek Tsai, Dawei Zhang, Yinong Chen, Hai Huang,...
Despite extensive testing in the development phase, residual defects can be a great threat to dependability in the operational phase. This paper studies the utility of lowcost, ge...
We consider the problem of selecting a subset of p out of n sensors for the purpose of event detection, in a wireless sensor network (WSN). Occurrence or not of the event of intere...