Abstract This paper contributes to the design of intelligent buildings. A MultiAgents Home Automation System (MAHAS) is proposed which controls appliances and energy sources in bui...
Broadcast scheduling algorithms have received a lot of attention recently, since they are important for supporting mobile/ubiquitous computing. However, a comprehensive system'...
Peter Triantafillou, R. Harpantidou, Michael Pater...
The requirements for the QoS of distributed applications are traditionally expressed in terms of network oriented or systems oriented parameters. In general, the users of these ser...
Cristian Hesselman, Ing Widya, Aart van Halteren, ...
Abstract. We are interested in efficient algorithms for generating random samples from geometric objects such as Riemannian manifolds. As a step in this direction, we consider the ...
Natural fractured media are highly unpredictable because of existing complex structures at the fracture and at the network levels. Fractures are by themselves heterogeneous objects...