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TON
2002
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13 years 7 months ago
Robust rate control for integrated services packet networks
Abstract--Research on congestion-control algorithms has traditionally focused more on performance than on robustness of the closed-loop system to changes in network conditions. As ...
Franco Blanchini, Renato Lo Cigno, Roberto Tempo
VLDB
2002
ACM
151views Database» more  VLDB 2002»
13 years 7 months ago
Preference SQL - Design, Implementation, Experiences
Current search engines can hardly cope adequately with fuzzy predicates defined by complex preferences. The biggest problem of search engines implemented with standard SQL is that...
Werner Kießling, Gerhard Köstler
WDAG
2010
Springer
177views Algorithms» more  WDAG 2010»
13 years 6 months ago
Transactions as the Foundation of a Memory Consistency Model
We argue that traditional synchronization objects, such as locks, conditions, and atomic/volatile variables, should be defined in terms of transactions, rather than the other way ...
Luke Dalessandro, Michael L. Scott, Michael F. Spe...
AI
2011
Springer
13 years 2 months ago
Contracting preference relations for database applications
The binary relation framework has been shown to be applicable to many real-life preference handling scenarios. Here we study preference contraction: the problem of discarding sele...
Denis Mindolin, Jan Chomicki
CDC
2010
IEEE
147views Control Systems» more  CDC 2010»
13 years 2 months ago
Dispatch then stop: Optimal dissemination of security patches in mobile wireless networks
The security threat posed by malware in mobile wireless networks can be countered through immunization using security patches. The distribution of patches however consumes bandwidt...
M. H. R. Khouzani, Saswati Sarkar, Eitan Altman