Abstract. We argue that failure detectors encapsulate fairness. Fairness is a measure of the number of steps a process takes relative to another processes and/or messages in transi...
— Implementing shared memory consistency models on top of hardware caches gives rise to the well-known cache coherence problem. The standard solution involves implementing cohere...
Parsing text to identify grammatical structure is a common task, especially in relation to programming languages and associated tools such as compilers. Parsers for context-free g...
Web services -- Web-accessible programs and devices ? are a key application area for the Semantic Web. With the proliferation of Web services and the evolution towards the Semanti...
Technology in the field of digital media generates huge amounts of non-textual information, audio, video, and images, along with more familiar textual information. The potential f...