From the point of view of an operating system, a computer is managed and optimized in terms of the application programming model and the management of system resources. For the TF...
To cope with the explosive increase in the number of requests to Internet server systems, one popular solution is a load-balancing technique that uses a dispatcher in the front-en...
Dependable distributed systems are difficult to build. This is particularly true if they have dependability requirements that change during the execution of an application, and are...
Michel Cukier, Jennifer Ren, Chetan Sabnis, David ...
Task-specific groups are often formed in an ad-hoc manner within big structures, like companies. Take the following typical scenario: A high rank manager decides that a task force...
In computer-mediated group communication, anonymity enables participants to post controversial comments without risking accusations of improper behavior. While this may encourage m...