Unpredictability in COTS-based systems often manifests as occasional instances of uncontrollably-high response times. A particular category of COTS systems, fault-tolerant (FT) mid...
Given a set of Datalog rules, facts, and a query, answers to the query can be inferred bottom-up starting with the facts or top-down starting with the query. For efficiently answe...
centralized abstractions. The metaphor of a community of independent objects communicating by passing messages is misleading and dangerous when thinking in terms of a distributed s...
Abstract We consider a system with N unit-service-rate queues in tandem, with exogenous arrivals of rate λ at queue 1, under a back-pressure (MaxWeight) algorithm: service at queu...
“The Marauder’s Map” is a magical map in J. K. Rowling’s fantasy series, “Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban”. It shows all moving objects within the “Hogwarts...
Xinwen Fu, Nan Zhang 0004, Aniket Pingley, Wei Yu,...