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DAIS
2009
15 years 2 months ago
A Reflective Middleware to Support Peer-to-Peer Overlay Adaptation
As peer-to-peer systems are evolving from simplistic application specific overlays to middleware platforms hosting a range of potential applications it has become evident that incr...
Gareth Tyson, Paul Grace, Andreas Mauthe, Gordon S...
FAST
2011
14 years 5 months ago
A Scheduling Framework That Makes Any Disk Schedulers Non-Work-Conserving Solely Based on Request Characteristics
Exploiting spatial locality is critical for a disk scheduler to achieve high throughput. Because of the high cost of disk head seeks and the non-preemptible nature of request serv...
Yuehai Xu, Song Jiang
SP
2008
IEEE
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15 years 8 months ago
Secure Web Browsing with the OP Web Browser
Abstract—Current web browsers are plagued with vulnerabilities, providing hackers with easy access to computer systems via browser-based attacks. Browser security efforts that re...
Chris Grier, Shuo Tang, Samuel T. King
ATAL
2006
Springer
15 years 5 months ago
Behaviosites: a novel paradigm for affecting distributed behavior
In this paper we present the Behaviosite paradigm, a new approach to affecting the behavior of distributed agents in a multiagent system, which is inspired by biological parasites ...
Amit Shabtay, Zinovi Rabinovich, Jeffrey S. Rosens...
JPDC
2008
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15 years 1 months ago
Stochastic robustness metric and its use for static resource allocations
This research investigates the problem of robust static resource allocation for distributed computing systems operating under imposed Quality of Service (QoS) constraints. Often, ...
Vladimir Shestak, Jay Smith, Anthony A. Maciejewsk...