Recent advancements in FPGA technology have allowed manufacturers to place general-purpose processors alongside user-configurable logic gates on a single chip. At first glance, ...
This paper discusses the application of distributed constraint optimization to coordination in disaster management situations under sub-optimal network conditions. It presents an ...
Robert N. Lass, Joseph B. Kopena, Evan Sultanik, D...
Abstract. Many context-aware systems have been demonstrated in lab environments; however, due to some difficulties such as the scalability and privacy issues, they are not yet prac...
Wei Li, Martin Jonsson, Fredrik Kilander, Carl Gus...
The deployment of service management systems in a multi-service environment opens a whole area of issues. Requirements for openness and reusability can be satisfied by following a...
Thanassis Tiropanis, David Lewis, A. Richter, Rong...
The advent of affordable, shared-nothing computing systems portends a new class of parallel database management systems (DBMS) for on-line transaction processing (OLTP) applicatio...