This paper identifies node affinity as an important property for scalable general-purpose locks. Nonuniform communication architectures (NUCAs), for example CCNUMAs built from a f...
Abstract. In this paper, we show that the proportional response dynamics, a utility based distributed dynamics, converges to the market equilibrium in the Fisher market with consta...
Data storage has become an important issue in sensor networks as a large amount of collected data need to be archived for future information retrieval. This paper introduces stora...
With the emergence of software delivery platforms such as Microsoft's .NET, code compression has become one of the core enabling technologies strongly affecting system perfor...
Recent advances in scene understanding and related tasks
have highlighted the importance of using regions to reason
about high-level scene structure. Typically, the regions are
...