After a system crash, databases recover to the last committed transaction, but applications usually either crash or cannot continue. The Phoenix purpose is to enable application s...
Crisis Management and Disaster Recovery have gained immense importance in the wake of recent man and nature inflicted calamities. A critical problem in a crisis situation is how t...
Li Zheng, Chao Shen, Liang Tang, Tao Li, Steven Lu...
—This paper deals with decentralized, QoS-aware middleware for checkpointing arrangement in Mobile Grid (MoG) computing systems. Checkpointing is more crucial in MoG systems than...
Fault tolerance is an important aspect in real-time computing. In real-time control systems, tasks could be faulty due to various reasons. Faulty tasks may compromise the performa...
Xue Liu, Hui Ding, Kihwal Lee, Qixin Wang, Lui Sha
This paper presents a new photometric stereo method aiming to efficiently estimate BRDF and reconstruct glossy surfaces. Rough specular surfaces exhibit wide specular lobes under ...