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SENSYS
2004
ACM
15 years 11 months ago
Medians and beyond: new aggregation techniques for sensor networks
Wireless sensor networks offer the potential to span and monitor large geographical areas inexpensively. Sensors, however, have significant power constraint (battery life), makin...
Nisheeth Shrivastava, Chiranjeeb Buragohain, Divya...
WOSP
2004
ACM
15 years 11 months ago
Early performance testing of distributed software applications
Performance characteristics, such as response time, throughput and scalability, are key quality attributes of distributed applications. Current practice, however, rarely applies s...
Giovanni Denaro, Andrea Polini, Wolfgang Emmerich
CBSE
2004
Springer
15 years 11 months ago
Extra-Functional Contract Support in Components
According to Szyperski, “a software component is a unit of composition with contractually specified interfaces and explicit context dependencies only”. But it is well known tha...
Olivier Defour, Jean-Marc Jézéquel, ...
CIKM
2004
Springer
15 years 11 months ago
The robustness of content-based search in hierarchical peer to peer networks
Hierarchical peer to peer networks with multiple directory services are an important architecture for large-scale file sharing due to their effectiveness and efficiency. Recent ...
M. Elena Renda, Jamie Callan
ECAI
2004
Springer
15 years 11 months ago
Guiding a Theorem Prover with Soft Constraints
Attempts to use finite models to guide the search for proofs by resolution and the like in first order logic all suffer from the need to trade off the expense of generating and m...
John K. Slaney, Arnold Binas, David Price