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...
Data-intensive parallel applications on clouds need to deploy large data sets from the cloud's storage facility to all compute nodes as fast as possible. Many multicast algori...
Tatsuhiro Chiba, Mathijs den Burger, Thilo Kielman...
Abstract--With the development of high-performance computing, I/O issues have become the bottleneck for many massively parallel applications. This paper investigates scalable paral...
Jing Fu, Ning Liu, Onkar Sahni, Kenneth E. Jansen,...
Scientific workflow tools allow users to specify complex computational experiments and provide a good framework for robust science and engineering. Workflows consist of pipelines ...
David Abramson, Blair Bethwaite, Colin Enticott, S...
This paper takes the first steps towards designing incentive compatible mechanisms for hierarchical decision making problems involving selfish agents. We call these Stackelberg p...