Unpredictability in COTS-based systems often manifests as occasional instances of uncontrollably-high response times. A particular category of COTS systems, fault-tolerant (FT) mid...
Orphan requests are a significant problem for multi-tier distributed systems since they adversely impact system correctness by violating the exactly-once semantics of application...
Abstract—Delay tolerant Ad-hoc Networks leverage the mobility of relay nodes to compensate for lack of permanent connectivity and thus enable communication between nodes that are...
The web services architecture came as answers to the search for interoperability among applications. In recent years there has been a growing interest in deploying on the Internet...
Giuliana Teixeira Santos, Lau Cheuk Lung, Carlos M...
DIRECT (DIviding RECTangles) is a deterministic global optimization algorithm for bound-constrained problems. The algorithm, based on a space-partitioning scheme, performs both gl...