Quorum systems are a mechanism for obtaining fault-tolerance and efficient distributed systems. We consider geographic quorum systems; a geographic quorum system is a partition of...
Minimization of the execution time of an iterative application in a heterogeneous parallel computing environment requires an appropriate mapping scheme for matching and scheduling...
Yu-Kwong Kwok, Anthony A. Maciejewski, Howard Jay ...
Abstract. Preliminary to most comparative genomics studies is the annotation of chromosomes as ordered sequences of genes. Unfortunately, different genetic mapping techniques usual...
Guillaume Blin, Eric Blais, Pierre Guillon, Mathie...
We investigate the trade off between investing effort in improving the features of a research environment that increases productivity and investing such effort in actually conduct...
Juan C. Quiroz, Anil Shankar, Sergiu M. Dascalu, S...
When developping multi-agent systems (MAS) or models in the context of agent-based simulation (ABS), the tuning of the model constitutes a crucial step of the design process. Indee...