Abstract. A significant increase in real world event monitoring capability with wireless sensor networks brought a new challenge to ubiquitous computing. To manage high volume and...
— Mutual exclusion is one of the well-studied fundamental primitives in distributed systems. However, the emerging P2P systems bring forward several challenges that can’t be co...
The SHRIMP cluster-computing system has progressed to a point of relative maturity; a variety of applications are running on a 16-node system. We have enough experience to underst...
Matthias A. Blumrich, Richard Alpert, Yuqun Chen, ...
The fundamental challenge for social computing is to contribute to fostering communities in which humans can transcend the limitation of the unaided, individual human mind by help...
We present Tigris, a high-performance computation and I/O substrate for clusters of workstations that is implemented entirely in Java. Tigris automatically balances resource load a...