Resource allocation is a key problem in autonomic computing. In this paper we use a data center scenario to motivate the need for decentralization and cooperative negotiation, and...
Craig Boutilier, Rajarshi Das, Jeffrey O. Kephart,...
This paper describes a new protocol for authentication in Peer-to-Peer systems. The protocol has been designed to meet specialized requirements of P2P systems, such as lack of dir...
The Newton MessagePad Personal Digital Assistant (PDA) is the first in a class of devices distinguished by their pen-based user interface, communications capability, small size, a...
Robert Welland, Greg Seitz, Lieh-Wuu Wang, Landon ...
Many embedded devices, especially those designed for environmental sensor logging, have extremely limited RAM, often less than several kilobytes. Logged data is stored on flash m...
Systems that use or serve multimedia data require timely access to data on hard drives. To ensure adequate performance users must either prevent overload of disk resources, or use...