Supporting high availability by checkpointing and switching to a backup upon failure of a primary has a cost. Trade-off studies help system architects to decide whether higher ava...
architectures at multiple levels of abstraction, encompassing both hardware and software. It has five modes of operation (Design, Model Validation, Build Simulation, Simulate Syste...
Paul S. Coe, Fred W. Howell, Roland N. Ibbett, Lau...
Radiotherapy planning is a complex problem which requires both expertise and experience of an oncologist. A Case Based Reasoning (CBR) system is developed to generate dose plans f...
Engineering distributed systems is a challenging activity. This is partly due to the intrinsic complexity of distributed systems, and partly due to the practical obstacles that de...
Yanyan Wang, Matthew J. Rutherford, Antonio Carzan...
We evaluate response times, in N-user collaborations, of the popular centralized (client-server) and replicated (peer-to-peer) architectures, and a hybrid architecture in which ea...