Resource reservation has been recently supported by many real-time operating systems to provide applications with guaranteed and timely access to system resources. Typically, rese...
This is a case-study in knowledge representation. We analyze the ‘one hundred prisoners and a lightbulb’ puzzle. In this puzzle it is relevant what the agents (prisoners) know...
customer which exceeds its deadline will either leave the queue without service or stay in the queue to get unsucWe consider the problem of scheduling impatient CUS- cessful servic...
Zheng-Xue Zhao, Shivendra S. Panwar, Donald F. Tow...
Mobile commerce and location based services (LBS) are some of the fastest growing IT industries in the last five years. Location update of mobile clients is a fundamental capabil...
The advances in the programmable hardware has lead to new architectures where the hardware can be dynamically adapted to the application to gain better performance. There are stil...