Many parallel systems offer a simple view of memory: all storage cells are addresseduniformly. Despite a uniform view of the memory, the machines differsignificantly in theirmemo...
A pattern is a string of constant and variable symbols. The language generated by a pattern is the set of all strings of constant symbols which can be obtained from by substituti...
Thomas Erlebach, Peter Rossmanith, Hans Stadtherr,...
Release consistency is a widely accepted memory model for distributed shared memory systems. Eager release consistency represents the state of the art in release consistent protoc...
Leonidas I. Kontothanassis, Michael L. Scott, Rica...
A virtual cluster is a promising technology for reducing management costs and improving capacity utilization in datacenters and computer centers. However, recent cluster virtualiz...
Appointment scheduling is a problem faced daily by many individuals and organizations. Cooperating agent systems have been developed to partially automate this task. In order to e...