Abstract. We demonstratehow the use of synchronizationprimitives and threading policies in distributed object middleware can lead to deadlocks. We identify that objectmiddleware on...
Passage time densities are useful performance measurements in stochastic systems. With them the modeller can extract probabilistic quality-of-service guarantees such as: the proba...
Jeremy T. Bradley, Stephen T. Gilmore, Nigel Thoma...
: Distributed top-k query processing is increasingly becoming an essential functionality in a large number of emerging application classes. This paper addresses the efficient alge...
Exotic semirings such as the “(max, +) semiring” (R ∪ {−∞}, max, +), or the “tropical semiring” (N ∪ {+∞}, min, +), have been invented and reinvented many times s...
The increased usage of mobile devices coupled with an unprecedented demand for information has pushed the scalability problem of pull-based data service to the focus. A broadcast ...
Sujoe Bose, Leonidas Fegaras, David Levine, Vamsi ...