We analyze various stochastic processes for generating permutations almost uniformly at random in distributed and parallel systems. All our protocols are simple, elegant and are b...
In this article the activities of the INEX 2005 Multimedia track are reported. We succesfully realized our objective, to provide an evaluation platform for the evaluation of retrie...
Large-scale distributed systems have dense, complex code-bases that are assumed to perform multiple and inter-dependent tasks while user interaction is present. The way users inte...
Angelos Stavrou, Gabriela F. Cretu-Ciocarlie, Mich...
Firewalls are the mainstay of enterprise security and the most widely adopted technology for protecting private networks. An error in a firewall policy either creates security hole...
Abstract. In this paper we motivate an Architecture Description Language (ADL) for mobile distributed systems based on the π-calculus. Different from other approaches, the non-fu...