In P2P systems, users often have many choices of peers from whom to download their data. Each user cares primarily about its own response time, which depends on how many other use...
Data grids, large scale web applications generating dynamic content and database service providing pose significant scalability challenges to database engines. Replication is the ...
The Internet network technology today does not allow a sufficient degree of autonomy to express user choices, constraints and preferences in order to dynamically obtain the most su...
the level of abstraction in system design promises to enable faster exploration of the design space at early stages. While scheduling decision for embedded software has great impa...
Numerical methods for solving the systems of partial differential equations arising in geophysical fluid dynamics rely on a variety of spatial discretization schemes (e.g. finit...