An increasing number of distributed applications are being constructed by composing them out of existing applications. The resulting applications can be very complex in structure,...
This paper introduces dual-quorum replication, a novel data replication algorithm designed to support Internet edge services. Dual-quorum replication combines volume leases and qu...
Lei Gao, Michael Dahlin, Jiandan Zheng, Lorenzo Al...
In a smart building environment nomadic users can benefit from specialised contextsensitive services. These can increase productivity and offer an improved lifestyle for users. Th...
The successful deployment of peer-to-peer (P2P) live video streaming systems has practically demonstrated that it can scale to reliably support a large population of peers. Howeve...
Due to the flexibility and adaptability of human, manual handling work is still very important in industry, especially for assembly and maintenance work. Well-designed work operat...
Liang Ma, Wei Zhang, Huanzhang Fu, Yang Guo, Damie...