Distributed applications must often consider and select the appropriate trade-offs among three important aspects ? fault-tolerance, performance and resources. We introduce a novel ...
Cellular computing architectures represent an important class of computation that are characterized by simple processing elements, local interconnect and massive parallelism. Thes...
Reid B. Porter, Jan R. Frigo, Al Conti, Neal R. Ha...
This paper presents a method to implement integrated services of networked home electric appliances, which provide more convenient and comfortable living for home users. The conve...
We are investigating strategies for using replication to design and implement highly reliable peer-to-peer systems. In particular, we are comparing the use of whole object and blo...
Ranjita Bhagwan, David Moore, Stefan Savage, Geoff...
As their field of application has evolved and matured, the importance of verifying knowledge-based systems is now widely recognized. Nevertheless, some problems have remained. In t...