Variable-Length Encoding (VLE) is a process of reducing input data size by replacing fixed-length data words with codewords of shorter length. As VLE is one of the main building bl...
Autonomic management can be used to improve the QoS provided by parallel/distributed applications. We discuss behavioural skeletons introduced in earlier work: rather than relying...
Marco Aldinucci, Sonia Campa, Marco Danelutto, Mar...
Recently, industry has begun investigating and moving towards utility computing, where computational resources (processing, memory and I/O) are availably on demand at a market cos...
The most important and interesting of the computing challenges we are facing are those that involve the problems and opportunities afforded by massive decentralization and disinte...
In tree-based multicast systems, a relatively small number of interior nodes carry the load of forwarding multicast messages. This works well when the interior nodes are highlyava...
Miguel Castro, Peter Druschel, Anne-Marie Kermarre...