While inherent resource redundancies in distributed applications facilitate gracefully degradable services, methods to enhance their dependability may have subtle, yet significan...
Ann T. Tai, Kam S. Tso, William H. Sanders, Savio ...
Advances in geographical information systems (GIS) and supporting data collection technology has resulted in the rapid collection of a huge amount of spatial data. However, known ...
Being able to model contention for software resources (e.g., a critical section or database lock) is paramount to building performance models that capture all aspects of the delay...
: Security has become the corner stone of research in wireless sensor networks (WSNs). Due to the unique operational environment of WSNs, where the communication medium is open to ...
Large-scale network services can consist of tens of thousands of machines running thousands of unique software configurations spread across hundreds of physical networks. Testing ...