The current landscape for digital rights management (DRM) consists of various ad hoc technologies and platforms that largely focus on copy protection. The fragmented nature of the...
Many industrial real-time systems have evolved over a long period of time and were initially so simple that it was possible to predict consequences of adding new functionality by ...
Anders Wall, Johan Andersson, Christer Norströ...
In recent years the power of Grid computing has grown exponentially through the development of advanced middleware systems. While usage has increased, the penetration of Grid compu...
Gregor von Laszewski, Andrew J. Younge, Xi He, Kum...
Large scale distributed systems typically have interactions among different services that create an avenue for propagation of a failure from one service to another. The failures ...
Given that commercial search engines cover billions of web pages, efficiently managing the corresponding volumes of disk-resident data needed to answer user queries quickly is a f...