We consider the impact of different communication architectures on the performability (performance + availability) of cluster-based servers. In particular, we use a combination of ...
Agent-oriented software is promising improvements especially for the design of distributed systems. But currently, there is a substantial gap between the massive number of publica...
In this paper, we propose a modified parallel virtual file system that provides snapshot functionality. Because typical file systems are exposed to various failures, taking a s...
This paper describes a document image analysis system using multiple agents working on a pyramid structure to separate text from graphics in the image. Text strings appear as diff...
Chew Lim Tan, Bo Yuan, Weihua Huang, Qian Wang, Zh...
A pass-through server such as an NFS server backed by an iSCSI[1] storage server only passes data between the storage server and NFS clients. Ideally it should require at most one...