The importance of distributed systems is growing as computing devices become ubiquitous and bandwidth becomes plentiful. Concurrency and distribution pose algorithmic and implemen...
Multithreaded concurrent programs often exhibit bugs due to unintended interferences among the concurrent threads. Such bugs are often hard to reproduce because they typically hap...
Concurrency control is a core component in optimistic replication systems. To detect concurrent updates, the system associates each replicated object with metadata, such as, versi...
Semantic integration in the hidden Web is an emerging area of research where traditional assumptions do not always hold. Frequent changes, conflicts and the sheer size of the hid...
—Tracking of movements such as that of people, animals, vehicles, or of phenomena such as fire, can be achieved by deploying a wireless sensor network. So far only prototype sys...
Paul Balister, Zizhan Zheng, Santosh Kumar, Prasun...