Asynchronous systems are being viewed as an increasingly viable alternative to purely synchronous systems. This paper gives an overview of the current state of the art in practica...
Empirical evidence shows the ability for computer technology to deliver on its promises of enhancing our quality of life relies on how well the application fits our understanding ...
Abstract. In this paper, we propose a testing method for QoS functions in distributed multi-media systems, where we test whether playback of media objects is correctly implemented ...
Tao Sun, Keiichi Yasumoto, Masaaki Mori, Teruo Hig...
Recent research has shown that even modern hard disks have complex failure modes that do not conform to “failstop” operation. Disks exhibit partial failures like block access ...
Lakshmi N. Bairavasundaram, Andrea C. Arpaci-Dusse...
The Windows Vista operating system implements an interesting model of multi-level integrity. We observe that in this model, trusted code must participate in any information-flow a...
Avik Chaudhuri, Prasad Naldurg, Sriram K. Rajamani