Workflows in the service industry sometimes need to deal with multi-fold increases in customer demand within a short period of time. Such spikes in service demand may be caused by...
Nodes in an ad hoc grid are characterized by heterogeneity, autonomy, and volatility. These characteristics result in varying workload of the resource manager in the ad hoc grid. ...
Abstract—This paper analyzes energy characteristics of parallel algorithms executed on scalable multicore processors. Specifically, we provide a methodology for evaluating energ...
— Planar Catadioptric Stereo vision sensors (PCS) combine a pinhole camera with two or more planar mirrors. PCS have recently received an increasing attention since a stereo view...
Gian Luca Mariottini, Stefano Scheggi, Fabio Morbi...
Abstract— Stigmergy is a mechanism that allows the coordination of actions within the same agent or across different agents by means of traces left in the environment. We propose...