Common programming practice grants excess authority for the sake of functionality; programming principles require least authority for the sake of security. If we practice our princ...
We describe two major developments in the General Network Simulation Integration System (Genesis): the support for BGP protocol in large network simulations and distribution of th...
Many applications of parallel I/O perform non-contiguous file accesses: instead of accessing a single (large) block of data in a file, a number of (smaller) blocks of data scatt...
It is hard to manage the software design documents within a distributed development team. The issues include the format, distribution and evolution of data. This paper mainly focu...
Scheduling query execution plans is an important component of query optimization in parallel database systems. The problem is particularly complex in a shared-nothing execution en...