We consider multi-class blocking systems in which jobs require a single processing step. There are groups of servers that can each serve a different subset of all job classes. The...
Failure detectors (or, more accurately Failure Suspectors { FS) appear to be a fundamental service upon which to build fault-tolerant, distributed applications. This paper shows t...
In this paper we present SCOPES, a distributed Smart Camera Object Position Estimation sensor network System that provides maps of distribution of people in indoors environments. ...
Ankur Kamthe, Lun Jiang, Matthew Dudys, Alberto Ce...
Abstract—Grids can efficiently deal with challenging computational and data processing tasks which cutting edge science is generating today. So-called e-Science grids cope with ...
Chris Develder, Jens Buysse, Ali Shaikh, Brigitte ...
Big data is the tar sands of the data world: vast reserves of raw gritty data whose valuable information content can only be extracted at great cost. MapReduce is a popular parall...