Parallel disks provide a cost effective way of speeding up I/Os in applications that work with large amounts of data. The main challenge is to achieve as much parallelism as poss...
Connection Admission Control (CAC) is needed in ATM networks to provide Quality of Service (QoS) guarantees to real-time connections. This paper presents a CAC scheme based on a b...
Many reputation management systems have been developed under the assumption that each entity in the system will use a variant of the same scoring function. Much of the previous wo...
William Conner, Arun Iyengar, Thomas A. Mikalsen, ...
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...
The Air Force has enthusiastically endorsed, at its most senior levels, advanced thinking with regard to the application of information technology. Recently, the notion of a Joint...