We show two severe problems with the state of the art in empirical computer system performance evaluation, observer effect and measurement context bias, and we outline the path to...
Execution behavior of a Java application can be nondeterministic due to concurrent threads of execution, thread scheduling, and variable network delays. This nondeterminism in Jav...
Abstract. The global quiescence of a distributed computation (or distributed termination detection) is an important problem. Some concurrent programming languages and systems provi...
Billy Yan-Kit Man, Hiu Ning (Angela) Chan, Andrew ...
Recently, ubiquitous location-based services (u-LBS) has been utilized in a variety of practical and mission-critical applications such as security services, personalization servic...
From the 1990s on, one of the most important challenges facing computer science researchers has been the design and construction of software tools to exploit Internet computing. A...