Distributed systems require strategies to detect and recover from failures. Many protocols for distributed systems employ a strategy based on leases, which grant a leaseholder acc...
Scott Rose, Kevin Bowers, Stephen Quirolgico, Kevi...
Scenarios are narratives that illustrate future possibilities, such as proposed systems or plans, and help policy makers and designers choose among alternative courses of action. ...
The goal of our research is to develop computer systems that support designers’ collective creativity; such systems support individual creative aspects in design through the use...
The task of reconstructing the derivative of a discrete function is essential for its shading and rendering as well as being widely used in image processing and analysis. We surve...
In this paper, we address the problem of choosing a disk admission algorithm for continuous media streams where each stream may have a di erent bit rate, and more importantly, whe...
Dwight J. Makaroff, Gerald W. Neufeld, Norman C. H...