Crowdsourcing is emerging as a wellspring of creative designs. This paper examines the mechanisms that support collective design. A sequential combination system is described: one ...
There are p heterogeneous objects to be assigned to n competing agents (n > p)
each with unit demand. It is required to design a Groves mechanism for this assignment problem
s...
Abstract. This paper presents the design, implementation and experimental analysis of a distributed, real-time MPEG video and audio player. The player is designed for use across th...
Shanwei Cen, Calton Pu, Richard Staehli, Crispin C...
of abstraction and coarse granularity and distributed communication control. Focusing on using probabilistic metrics such as average values or variance to quantify design objective...
Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) have been increasingly available for critical applications such as security surveillance and environmental monitoring. An important performance mea...