We introduce a new synchronization problem in mobile ad-hoc systems: the Driving Philosophers. In this problem, an unbounded number of driving philosophers (processes) access a rou...
We extend the problem of association rule mining – a key data mining problem – to systems in which the database is partitioned among a very large number of computers that are ...
Abstract. This paper represents the beginning of a study aimed at devising semantic models for true concurrency that provide clear distinctions between concurrency, parallelism and...
In this paper we present a security framework for executing foreign programs, called helpers, on a Pocket Companion: a wireless hand-held computer. A helper program as proposed is...
We present a decentralized, asynchronous market protocol for allocating and scheduling tasks among agents that contend for scarce resources, constrained by a hierarchical task dep...