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CLUSTER
2004
IEEE
14 years 27 days ago
Rolls: modifying a standard system installer to support user-customizable cluster frontend appliances
The Rocks toolkit [9], [7], [10] uses a graph-based framework to describe the configuration of all node types (termed appliances) that make up a complete cluster. With hundreds of...
Greg Bruno, Mason J. Katz, Federico D. Sacerdoti, ...
ATAL
2006
Springer
14 years 27 days ago
A utility-based sensing and communication model for a glacial sensor network
This paper reports on the development of a utility-based mechanism for managing sensing and communication in cooperative multi-sensor networks. The specific application considered...
Paritosh Padhy, Rajdeep K. Dash, Kirk Martinez, Ni...
ATAL
2006
Springer
14 years 27 days ago
Convergence analysis for collective vocabulary development
We study how decentralized agents can develop a shared vocabulary without global coordination. Answering this question can help us understand the emergence of many communication s...
Jun Wang, Les Gasser, Jim Houk
FLOPS
2006
Springer
14 years 25 days ago
Contracts as Pairs of Projections
Abstract. Assertion-based contracts provide a powerful mechanism for stating invariants at module boundaries and for enforcing them uniformly. In 2002, Findler and Felleisen showed...
Robert Bruce Findler, Matthias Blume
CAISE
2003
Springer
14 years 24 days ago
Time Related Factors of Data Accuracy, Completeness, and Currency in Multi-Channel Information Systems
Multi-channel information systems involve data redundancy, which, in turn, requires the implementation of synchronization mechanisms among overlapping databases. This need for peri...
Cinzia Cappiello, Chiara Francalanci, Barbara Pern...