Pervasive computing is an emerging computing paradigm, which is expected to be part of our everyday life in the foreseeable future. The coordination among heterogeneous devices, s...
We consider a centralised (client-server) digital TV network with heterogeneous receiver devices of different resolutions, requiring a multi-rate transport system. There exist two ...
For the last few years, large Web content providers interested in improving their scalability and availability have increasingly turned to three techniques: mirroring, content dis...
Abstract. In this paper we study a special operator for sequential composition, which is de ned relative to a dependency relation over the actions of a given system. The idea is th...
Debugging the performance of parallel and distributed systems remains a difficult task despite the widespread use of middleware packages for automatic distribution, communication...