In Internet-scale distributed systems, replicationbased scheme has been widely deployed to increase the availability and efficiency of services. Hence, consistency maintenance amo...
—The development and deployment of distributed network-aware applications and services require the ability to compile and maintain a model of the underlying network resources wit...
Today, digital journals and newspapers are available online by almost any publishing agency. The effect of this rapidly growing use creates an increased demand for solutions which ...
The installation of software packages depends on the correct resolution of dependencies and conflicts between packages. This problem is NP-complete and, as expected, is a hard ta...
Two basic problems in image interpretation are: a) determining which interpretations are the most plausible amoungst many possibilities; and b) controlling the search for plausibl...