Sensor networks and other distributed information systems (such as the Web) must frequently access data that has a high per-attribute acquisition cost, in terms of energy, latency...
Amol Deshpande, Carlos Guestrin, Wei Hong, Samuel ...
In this paper we investigate the performance of IEEE 802.11b ad hoc networks by means of an experimental study. This analysis reveals several aspects that are usually neglected in...
Giuseppe Anastasi, Eleonora Borgia, Marco Conti, E...
We introduce the class of Rigid Tree Automata (RTA), an extension of standard bottom-up automata on ranked trees with distinguished states called rigid. Rigid states define a rest...
— A radio frequency identification (RFID) system consists of a set of readers and several objects, equipped with small computer chips, called tags. In a dense RFID system, where...
Amir Hamed Mohsenian Rad, Vahid Shah-Mansouri, Vin...
: A persuasion dialog is a dialog in which agents exchange arguments on a subject. In this kind of dialog, the agents disagree about the status of the subject and each one tries to...