A lease is a token which grants its owner exclusive access to a resource for a defined span of time. In order to be able to tolerate failures, leases need to be coordinated by di...
As software projects evolve, possibly differing in size, complexity, scope, and purpose, the development processes that support the project must evolve to reflect these changes. T...
Arthur S. Hitomi, Gregory Alan Bolcer, Richard N. ...
This paper reports on an ongoing effort to define the security architecture for the Joint Simulation System (JSIMS), a joint military modeling and simulation system. It also descr...
We consider the problem of distributed classification of multiple observations of the same object that are collected in an ad-hoc network of vision sensors. Assuming that each sen...
Abstract. Category Theory is introduced as the mathematical model for object-oriented systems which are distributed, heterogeneous, real-time, embedded, and open-ended. Each object...