Abstract. Modern mobile phones and PDAs are equipped with positioning capabilities (e.g., GPS). Users can access public location-based services (e.g., Google Maps) and ask spatial ...
Gabriel Ghinita, Panos Kalnis, Spiros Skiadopoulos
We present a web computing library (PUBWCL) in Java that allows to execute tightly coupled, massively parallel algorithms in the bulk-synchronous (BSP) style on PCs distributed ove...
Olaf Bonorden, Joachim Gehweiler, Friedhelm Meyer ...
Process/thread migration and checkpointing schemes support load balancing, load sharing and fault tolerance to improve application performance and system resource usage on worksta...
A quorum system is a collection of sets (quorums) every two of which intersect. Quorum systems have been used for many applications in the area of distributed systems, including mu...
Fault tolerance will be a fundamental imperative in the next decade as machines containing hundreds of thousands of cores will be installed at various locations. In this context, ...
Esteban Meneses, Celso L. Mendes, Laxmikant V. Kal...