Strict consistency of replicated data is infeasible or not required by many distributed applications, so current systems often permit stale replication, in which cached copies of ...
—MapReduce has emerged as a popular tool for distributed and scalable processing of massive data sets and is increasingly being used in e-science applications. Unfortunately, the...
Benjamin Gufler, Nikolaus Augsten, Angelika Reiser...
Variable-bandwidth servers (VBS) control process execution speed by allocating variable CPU bandwidth to processes. VBS enables temporal isolation of EDF-scheduled processes in th...
Silviu S. Craciunas, Christoph M. Kirsch, Ana Soko...
Commitment-modeled protocols enable flexible and robust interactions among agents. However, existing work has focused on features and capabilities of protocols without considerin...
Consider a scenario where Jane is at an airport. She wants to find a restaurant with healthy food and short waiting time on the way to her terminal. The airport can provide such s...