Computer system administrators are the unsung heroes of the information age, working behind the scenes to configure, maintain, and troubleshoot the computer infrastructure that un...
Rob Barrett, Eser Kandogan, Paul P. Maglio, Eben M...
Collaborative work is an important part of tertiary education but it is very difficult to arrange and supervise for extremely large classes of students in their first year. The po...
Teachers working in robotics classes face a major problem: how to keep track on individual students’ or even small groups’ progress in a class of 30-40 students. An agency app...
Ilkka Jormanainen, Yuejun Zhang, Erkki Sutinen, Ki...
In this paper, we present a locking-based concurrency control scheme for object-oriented databases (OODBs). Our scheme deals with class hierarchy which is an important property in...
In job scheduling with precedence constraints, i j means that job j cannot start being processed before job i is completed. In this paper we consider selfish bully jobs who do no...