We define two new classes of shared-memory objects: ratifiers, which detect agreement, and conciliators, which ensure agreement with some probability. We show that consensus can...
Pseudo-periodicity is one of the basic job arrival patterns on data-intensive clusters and Grids. In this paper, a signal decomposition methodology called matching pursuit is appl...
Hui Li, Richard Heusdens, Michael Muskulus, Lex Wo...
Abstract. The importance of modularity in product innovation is analyzed in this paper. Through simulations with an agent-based modular economic model, we examine the significance...
Programs with irregular patterns of dynamic data structures and/or those with complicated control structures such as recursion are notoriously difficult to parallelize efficient...
Sheng Li, Amit Kashyap, Shannon K. Kuntz, Jay B. B...
We consider the problem of radiation therapy treatment planning for cancer patients. During radiation therapy, beams of radiation pass through a patient, killing both cancerous an...
H. Edwin Romeijn, Ravindra K. Ahuja, James F. Demp...