The M/G/K queueing system is one of the oldest model for multi-server systems, and has been the topic of performance papers for almost half a century. However, even now, only coar...
Varun Gupta, Mor Harchol-Balter, J. G. Dai, Bert Z...
Code obfuscation is a relatively new technique of software protection and it works by deterring reverse engineering attempts by malicious users of software. The objective of obfus...
Traditional security systems are not easily scalable and can become single points of failure or performance bottlenecks when used on a large-scale distributed system such as the I...
Altair Olivo Santin, Joni da Silva Fraga, Frank Si...
This paper develops some control structures suitable for composing fault-tolerant distrib uted applications using atomic actions (atomic transactions) as building blocks, and then...
A major challenge in efficiently solving distributed resource allocation problems is to cope with the dynamic state changes that characterise such systems. An effective solution t...
Partha Sarathi Dutta, Nicholas R. Jennings, Luc Mo...