: There are many different ways to specify the requirements of complex software systems, and the optimal methods often vary according to the problem domain. We apply and compare tw...
Availability and performance can be improved using data replication as the basic technique, thus benefitting the services provided by a distributed system. However, replication im...
Abstract-- In many portable devices, wireless network interfaces consume upwards of 30% of scarce system energy. Reducing the transceiver's power consumption to extend the sys...
Sofie Pollin, Rahul Mangharam, Bruno Bougard, Lies...
In an environment of distributed text collections, the first step in the information retrieval process is to identify which of all available collections are more relevant to a giv...
Grid computing supports shared access to computing resources from cooperating organizations or institutes in the form of virtual organizations. Resource brokering middleware, comm...
Norman Bobroff, Liana Fong, Selim Kalayci, Yanbin ...