Web services are becoming the prominent paradigm for distributing, computing, and electronic business, while there is an increasing surge to provide online Businessto-Business col...
Distributed real-time systems require a predictable and verifiable mechanism to control the communication medium. Current real-time communication protocols are typically independe...
Background: The development, in the last decade, of stochastic heuristics implemented in robust application softwares has made large phylogeny inference a key step in most compara...
We present SQUIRREL, a stream-oriented programming framework for storage-centric sensor networks. The storagecentric paradigm—where storage operations prevail over communication...
We examine the problem of retrieving the top-m ranked items from a large collection, randomly distributed across an n-node system. In order to retrieve the top m overall, we must ...