Distributed storage systems often use data replication to mask failures and guarantee high data availability. Node failures can be transient or permanent. While the system must ge...
Jing Tian, Zhi Yang, Wei Chen, Ben Y. Zhao, Yafei ...
Persistent Embodied Conversational Agents (ECA) can be used to assist users in their daily activities. We introduce the Health and Fitness Companion (HFC), which is a conversation...
Cameron Smith, Daniel Charlton, Li Zhang, Marc Cav...
Background: Predicting metabolic sites is important in the drug discovery process to aid in rapid compound optimisation. No interactive tool exists and most of the useful tools ar...
Lars Carlsson, Ola Spjuth, Samuel Adams, Robert C....
Most of the research proposals on Quality-of-Service (QoS) mechanisms have focused on providing guarantees in a single domain. Supporting QoS guarantees in the interdomain setting...
W.-Y. Tam, King-Shan Lui, Suleyman Uludag, Klara N...
provides a powerful abstraction basically allowing to perceiving all compute resources as entities that can be dynamically discovered and composed. These entities are called servic...