In application server systems, such as J2EE, replication is an essential strategy for reliability and efficiency. Many J2EE implementations, both commercial and open-source, provid...
The emergence of power as a first-class design constraint has fueled the proposal of a growing number of run-time power optimizations. Many of these optimizations trade-off power...
1 Vehicular Ad hoc NETworks (VANETs) is a subclass of Mobile Ad hoc NETworks (MANETs). However, automotive ad hoc networks will behave in fundamentally different ways than the pred...
Ivan Wang Hei Ho, Kin K. Leung, John W. Polak, Rah...
—The ability of a web service to provide low-latency access to its contents is constrained by available network bandwidth. It is important for the service to manage available ban...
Assigning tasks to agents is complex, especially in highly dynamic environments. Typical protocol-based approaches for task assignment such as Contract Net have proven their value...