Many real world applications such as sensor networks and other monitoring applications naturally generate probabilistic streams that are highly correlated in both time and space. ...
ER ABSTRACTIONS ter service uses several abstractions— including resource, resource dependencies, and resource groups—to simplify both the cluster service itself and user-visib...
In the world of pervasive computing where large management systems, as well as small devices, all become interconnected, the problem of the configuration and management of network...
We examine the task of concurrently computing alternative solutions to a problem. We restrict our interest to the case where only one of the solutions is needed; in this case we n...
In many application areas, for example in design or media production processes, several authors have to work cooperatively on the same project. Thereby, a frequently used data for...