We propose an adaptive middleware design for context-aware applications that abstracts the applications from the sensors that provide context. Further, we use application-specifi...
We consider a dynamic load balancing scenario in which users allocate resources in a non-cooperative and selfish fashion. The perceived performance of a resource for a user decre...
Heiner Ackermann, Simon Fischer, Martin Hoefer, Ma...
Background: The Ensembl project produces updates to its comparative genomics resources with each of its several releases per year. During each release cycle approximately two week...
Jessica Severin, Kathryn Beal, Albert J. Vilella, ...
A quorum system is a collection of sets (quorums) every two of which intersect. Quorum systems have been used for many applications in the area of distributed systems, including mu...
Faults that occur in production systems are the most important faults to fix, but most production systems lack the debugging facilities present in development environments. TraceB...
Andrew Ayers, Richard Schooler, Chris Metcalf, Ana...