Abstract--Conducting valid comparative evaluations of techniques in the field of Music Information Retrieval (MIR) presents particular challenges to MIR researchers due to issues o...
Kris West, Amit Kumar, Andrew Shirk, Guojun Zhu, J...
Workstation clusters are becoming an interesting alternative to dedicated multiprocessors. In this environment, the probability of a failure, during an application's executio...
With the increased realisation of the benefits of studying environmental data, sensor networks are rapidly scaling in size, heterogeneity of data, and applications. In this paper...
This paper presents our experience developing applications in Jade, a portable, implicitly parallel programming language designed for exploiting task-level concurrency. Jade progr...
As distributed computing systems grow in size, complexity and variety of application, the problem of protecting sensitive data from unauthorized disclosure and tampering becomes i...