An important concept in the available bit rate (ABR) service model as defined by the ATM Forum is the minimum cell rate (MCR) guarantee as well as the peak cell rate (PCR) constra...
Yiwei Thomas Hou, Henry H.-Y. Tzeng, Shivendra S. ...
PROPAGATOR is a family of patterns for consistently updating objects in a dependency network. The propagator patterns are found in such diverse applications as MAKE, WWW, spreadsh...
We present an end-to-end delay guarantee theorem for a class of guaranteed-deadline (GD) servers. The theorem can be instantiated to obtain end-to-end delay bounds for a variety of...
The data distribution problem is very complex, because it involves trade-offdecisions between minimizing communication and maximizing parallelism. A common approach towards solving...
From a multiagent viewpoint, a workflow is a dynamic set of tasks performed by a set of agents to reach a shared goal. We show herein that commitments among agents can be used to ...