Today Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) are a largely underexploited resource on existing desktops and a possible costeffective enhancement to high-performance systems. To date, mo...
Samer Al-Kiswany, Abdullah Gharaibeh, Elizeu Santo...
In order to guarantee certain levels of QoS, a Web application needs to adapt itself to different execution contexts. However, because of the lack of coordination support in Web p...
Abstract: As enterprises worldwide race to improve real-time management to improve productivity, customer services and flexibility, huge resources have been invested into enterpris...
A nonce is a cryptographic input value which must never repeat within a given context. Nonces are important for the security of many cryptographic building blocks, such as stream c...
The early 1980s saw the development of some rather sophisticated distributed systems. These were not merely networked file systems: rather, using remote procedure calls, hierarchi...