Existing workflow management systems encapsulate the data and behavior of a process within its execution scope, preventing other processes from accessing this information until th...
Currently, companies are about to optimize their internal processes by monitoring items they handle with Radio Frequency Identification (RFID). However, there is a risk that sens...
Background: Large biological data sets, such as expression profiles, benefit from reduction of random noise. Principal component (PC) analysis has been used for this purpose, but ...
In this paper we propose the use of an optical network not only as the communication medium, but also as a system-wide cache for the shared data in a multiprocessor. More specifica...
Resource allocation is a key problem in autonomic computing. In this paper we use a data center scenario to motivate the need for decentralization and cooperative negotiation, and...
Craig Boutilier, Rajarshi Das, Jeffrey O. Kephart,...