To offset the significant power demands of hard disk drives in computer systems, drives are typically powered down during idle periods. This saves power, but accelerates duty cyc...
Timothy Bisson, Scott A. Brandt, Darrell D. E. Lon...
This paper focuses on the hierarchical scheduling of systems where a number of separate applications reside on a single processor. It addresses the particular case where fixed pri...
Abstract. This paper describes an event dissemination algorithm that impletopic-based publish/subscribe interaction abstraction in mobile ad-hoc networks (MANETs). Our algorithm is...
We develop a framework for specifying and reasoning about policies for sharing resources in coalitions, focussing here on a particular, common type of contract in which coalition ...
Babak Sadighi Firozabadi, Marek J. Sergot, Anna Ci...
CSCL software tools must provide support for group work and should be based on a collaborative learning technique. The PBL based CCCuento tool is introduced here. It is intended t...