The need to allow threads to abort an attempt to acquire a lock (sometimes called a timeout) is an interesting new requirement driven by state-of-the-art database applications wit...
This paper addresses the issue of Web document summarization. As textual content of Web documents is often scarce or irrelevant and existing summarization techniques are based on ...
Reliable broadcast can be a very useful primitive for many distributed applications, especially in the context of sensoractuator networks. Recently, the issue of reliable broadcas...
Concurrent Time-stamp Systems (ctss) allow processes to temporally order concurrent events in an asynchronous shared memorysystem, a powerful tool for concurrency control, serving...
Knowledge discovery systems are constrained by three main limited resources: time, memory and sample size. Sample size is traditionally the dominant limitation, but in many present...