This paper presents a package management system for the Scheme programming language. It is inspired by the Comprehensive Perl Archive Network (CPAN) and various GNU/Linux distribu...
Replication is crucial to achieve high availability distributed systems. However, non-determinism introduces consistency problems between replicas. Transactions are very well suite...
Dynamic module replacement — the ability to hot swap a component’s implementation at runtime — is fundamental to supporting evolutionary change in long-lived and highlyavail...
Debugging multi-agent systems, which are concurrent, distributed, and consist of complex components, is difficult, yet crucial. In earlier work we have proposed mechanisms whereby...
This study proposes a nurse allocation policy to manage patient overflow during a pandemic influenza outbreak. The objective is to minimize the number of patients waiting in queue...