A linkage is a collection of line segments, called bars, possibly joined at their ends, called joints. Straightening a tree linkage is a continuous motion of their bars from an ini...
This paper considers a parallel queueing model with heterogeneous servers, where an arriving customer joins the shortest queue and jockeying between queues is permitted. Based on ...
The Santa Claus problem is an interesting exercise in concurrent programming which has been used in a comparison of the concurrency mechanisms of Ada and Java. We present a simple...
Abstract. Finding all occurrences of a twig pattern in an XML document is a core operation for XML query processing. The emergence of XML as a common mark-up language for data inte...
In this paper, we propose a hierarchical architecture for grouping peers into clusters in a large-scale BitTorrent-like underlying overlay network in such a way that clusters are e...