This paper proposes a new method for programming and controlling distributed tasks. Applications declare behavior patterns that are used to automatically predict and reserve resou...
Recent debate has centered on the relative promise of focusing user-interface research on developing new metaphors and tools that enhance users’ abilities to directly manipulate...
In this paper, we propose a novel MAC protocol, called Quality-ofservice Guarantee Multiple Access (QGMA), in wireless local area networks to support the quality of service requir...
We consider server scheduling strategies to minimize average flow time in a multicast pull system where data items have uniform size. The algorithm Longest Wait First (LWF) always...
SiMPLE++ is an object-oriented simulation environment for modeling all types of manufacturing, logistics and service systems. AESOP’s SiMPLE++ is a fully object-oriented impleme...