Languages such as Java, ML, Scheme, and Haskell provide automatic storage management, that is, garbage collection. The two fundamental operations performed on a garbagecollected h...
In modern software systems, programs are obtained by dynamically assembling components. This has made it necessary to subject component providers to access-control restrictions. W...
Emmanuel Geay, Marco Pistoia, Takaaki Tateishi, Ba...
Quorum protocols offer several benefits when used to maintain replicated data but techniques for reducing overheads associated with them have not been explored in detail. It is d...
Lei Kong, Deepak J. Manohar, Mustaque Ahamad, Arun...
This paper presents a simple radiologicd image guidance method and robotic system optimized for percutaneous procedures.This simplicity is achieved by combining the proven guidance...
Dan Stoianovici, Jeffrey A. Cadeddu, Roger D. Dema...
—One of the challenges of ambient systems lies in providing all the available services of the environment to the ambient devices, even if they do not physically host those servic...