In recent software transactional memory proposals, a contention manager module is responsible for ensuring that the system as a whole makes progress. A number of contention manage...
Software construction has typically drawn on engineering metaphors like building bridges or cathedrals, which emphasize architecture, specification, central planning, and determin...
David F. Bacon, Eric Bokelberg, Yiling Chen, Ian A...
Abstract. Variables and constraints in problem domains are often distributed. These distributed constraint satisfaction problems (DCSPs) lend themselves to multiagent solutions. Mo...
Abstract: This paper presents a new net-reduction methodology to facilitate the analysis of large workflow models. We propose an enhanced algorithm based on reducible subnet identi...
This paper proposes a new priority scheduling algorithm to maximise site revenue of session-based multi-tier Internet services in a multicluster environment. This research is part...