Success of 3D applications on the Web inherently depends on object behavior and interaction. Current Web3D formats often fall short in supporting behavior modeling. This paper int...
—In this paper, we propose E-Shadow, a distributed mobile phone-based local social networking system. E-Shadow has two main components: (1) Local profiles. They enable EShadow u...
Jin Teng, Boying Zhang, Xinfeng Li, Xiaole Bai, Do...
Power consumption is a troublesome design constraint for emergent systems such as IBM’s BlueGene /L. If current trends continue, future petaflop systems will require 100 megawat...
An integrated model-based development approach has to capture the relationship between requirements, design, and implementation models. In the requirements engineering phase, the m...
Abstract. A long-running transaction is an interactive component of a distributed system which must be executed as if it were a single atomic action. In principle, it should not be...