This paper presents an algorithm, called JustIn-Case Scheduling, for building robust schedules that tend not to break. The algorithm implements the common sense idea of being prep...
ifferent abstraction levels, resulting in isolated `information silos'. An increasing number of task-specific software tools aim to support developers, but this often results ...
In this paper we analyse the requirements of performing parallel transaction-oriented simulations within loosely coupled systems like Ad Hoc Grids. We focus especially on the spac...
Abstract-- Pervasive Computing refers to a seamless and invisible computing environment which provides dynamic, proactive and context-aware services to the user by acquiring contex...
Databases of moving objects are important for air traffic control, ground traffic, and battlefield configurations. We introduce the (historical and spatial) range close-pair query...