Failure detectors are a service that provides (approximate) information about process crashes in a distributed system. The well-known “eventually perfect” failure detector, 3P...
Abstract. The trend towards cloud and utility computing infrastructures raises challenges not only for application development, but also for management: diverse resources, changing...
: Main aim of Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS) applied to roads is to increase their safety. To achieve this aim, many researchers are focused on developing robust and efficient...
The use of inaccurate or outdated database statistics by the query optimizer in a relational DBMS often results in a poor choice of query execution plans and hence unacceptably lo...
Ashraf Aboulnaga, Peter J. Haas, Sam Lightstone, G...
The growing infrastructure for Web Services assumes a "programmer in the loop" that hardcodes the connections between Web Services and directly programs Web Service comp...
Massimo Paolucci, Katia P. Sycara, Takahiro Kawamu...