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This vision paper presents the case for MUSIC, a programmable framework for building distributed mobile IoT applications for urban sensing. The Mobile Urban Sensing, Inference and Control (MUSIC) framework is contextualized for scenarios…
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The EURETILE project required the selection and coding of a set of dedicated benchmarks. The project is about the software and hardware architecture of future many-tile distributed fault-tolerant systems. We focus on dynamic workloads…
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