We introduce a new synchronization problem in mobile ad-hoc systems: the Driving Philosophers. In this problem, an unbounded number of driving philosophers (processes) access a rou...
Multimedia presentation systems require flexible support for the modeling of multimedia content models. Many presentation systems provide the synchronized, sequential or concurren...
Portable systems such as cell phones and portable media players commonly use non-volatile RAM (NVRAM) to hold all of their data and metadata, and larger systems can store metadata...
Although active networks have generated much debate in the research community, on the whole there has been little hard evidence to inform this debate. This paper aims to redress t...
Although database replication has been a standard feature in database management systems for a long time, third party solutions have been enjoying an increasing popularity. These ...