The non-blocking work-stealing algorithm of Arora, Blumofe, and Plaxton (henceforth ABP work-stealing) is on its way to becoming the multiprocessor load balancing technology of ch...
Abstract. Distributed applications running on clusters may be composed of several components with very different performance requirements. The FlowVR middleware allows the develop...
There is general consensus that critical mass at inception ensures the sustained success of online communities. However, no clear understanding of what constitutes such a 'cr...
Traditionally, distributed computing problems have been solved by partitioning data into chunks able to be handled by commodity hardware. Such partitioning is not possible in case...
Different kinds of computing environment effect human interaction in different kinds of ways and understanding how different environments ‘work’, as it were, is important to t...