Resource management for ad hoc grids is challenging due to the participation of heterogeneous, dynamic, autonomous and ephemeral nodes. Different underlying network infrastructure...
Real-time media servers are becoming increasingly important due to the rapid transition of the Internet from text and graphics based applications to multimedia-driven environments...
We present a framework for transforming several quorum-based protocols so that they can dynamically adapt their failure threshold and server count, allowing them to be reconfigure...
In this paper, we develop a theoretical understanding of multi-sensory knowledge and user context and their interrelationships. This is used to develop a generic representation fr...
The art of performance tuning is, alas, still an art; there are few tools to help predict the effects of changes that are motivated by performance needs. In this work, we present ...