While standard parallel machine scheduling is concerned with good assignments of jobs to machines, we aim to understand how the quality of an assignment is affected if the jobsâ€...
Multiple-part manuscripts are those submitted to a journal and intended for publication as a series, usually having ‘‘Part 1,’’ ‘‘Part I,’’ … ‘‘Part N’’ i...
Set agreement, where processors decisions constitute a set of outputs, is notoriously harder to analyze than consensus where the decisions are restricted to a single output. This ...
Secure, fault-tolerant distributed systems are difficult to build, to validate, and to operate. Conservative design for such systems dictates that their security and fault toleran...
— In location-based, mobile continual query (CQ) systems, two key measures of quality of service (QoS) are: freshness and accuracy. To achieve freshness, the CQ server must perfo...