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HPDC
2008
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
FaTLease: scalable fault-tolerant lease negotiation with paxos
A lease is a token which grants its owner exclusive access to a resource for a defined span of time. In order to be able to tolerate failures, leases need to be coordinated by di...
Felix Hupfeld, Björn Kolbeck, Jan Stender, Mi...
HPDC
2008
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
The performance of bags-of-tasks in large-scale distributed systems
Ever more scientists are employing large-scale distributed systems such as grids for their computational work, instead of tightly coupled high-performance computing systems. Howev...
Alexandru Iosup, Omer Ozan Sonmez, Shanny Anoep, D...
IAT
2008
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
Generating Personalized Summaries Using Publicly Available Web Documents
Many Knowledge workers are increasingly using online resources to find out latest developments in their specialty and articles of interest. To extract relevant information from s...
Chandan Kumar, Prasad Pingali, Vasudeva Varma
ICRA
2008
IEEE
143views Robotics» more  ICRA 2008»
14 years 4 months ago
How morphology affects self-assembly in a stochastic modular robot
Abstract— Self-assembly is a process through which an organized structure can spontaneously form from simple parts. Taking inspiration from biological examples of self-assembly, ...
Shuhei Miyashita, Max Kessler, Marco Lungarella
IEEEARES
2008
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
WATCHMAN: An Overlay Distributed AAA Architecture for Mobile Ad hoc Networks
— Access control concerns in MANETs are very serious and considered as a crucial challenge for operators who prospects to employ unrivaled capabilities of such networks for diffe...
Amir R. Khakpour, Maryline Laurent-Maknavicius, Ha...