A virtual database system is software that provides unified access to multiple information sources. If the sources are overlapping in their contents and independently maintained,...
We consider the generalized assignment problem in which the objective is to find a minimum cost assignment of a set of jobs to a set of agents subject to resource constraints. Th...
Abstract. The current trend in Embedded Systems (ES) design is moving towards the integration of increasingly complex applications on a single chip. An Embedded System has to satis...
Concurrent garbage collectors require write barriers to preserve consistency, but these barriers impose significant direct and indirect costs. While there has been a lot of work ...
This paper is motivated by the problem of poor searching efficiency in decentralized peer-to-peer file-sharing systems. We solve the searching problem by considering and modeling t...
Xuezheng Liu, Guangwen Yang, Jinfeng Hu, Ming Chen...