Abstract. Because Remote Procedure Calls do not compose efficiently, designers of distributed object systems use Data Transfer and Remote Fac?ade patterns to create large-granulari...
Ali Ibrahim, Yang Jiao, Eli Tilevich, William R. C...
We present a new run-time system for typed programming languages that supports object sharing in a distributed system. The key insight in this system is that the ability to distin...
Y. Charlie Hu, Weimin Yu, Alan L. Cox, Dan S. Wall...
Abstract--Many efforts are centered around creating largescale networks of "smart things" found in the physical world (e.g., wireless sensor and actuator networks, embedd...
: Clinical guidelines reuse existing clinical procedural knowledge while leaving room for flexibility by the care provider applying that knowledge. Guidelines can be viewed as gene...
We study the combinatorial auction (CA) problem, in which m objects are sold to rational agents and the goal is to maximize social welfare. Of particular interest is the special ca...