Search engines represent a key component of Web economy these days. Despite that, there is not much technical literature available on their design, fine tuning, and internal oper...
Claudine Santos Badue, Ramurti A. Barbosa, Paulo B...
Peer-to-peer, or simply P2P, systems have recently emerged as a popular paradigm for building distributed applications. One key aspect of the P2P system design is the mechanism us...
Message-passing mechanism is commonly used to preserve data coherency in distributed systems. This paper presents an algorithm for insertion of minimal message-passing in system-l...
Time triggered methods provide deterministic behaviour suitable for critical real-time systems. They perform less favourably, however, if the arrival times of some activities are ...
This paper makes the case that operating system designs for sensor networks should focus on the coordination of resource management decisions across the network, rather than merel...
Jason Waterman, Geoffrey Werner Challen, Matt Wels...