—Recently, high-end reconfigurable computing systems that employ Field-Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) as hardware accelerators for general-purpose processors have been built. T...
Clustered Objects (COs) [1] have been proven to be an effective ion for improving scalability of systems software [2, 3]. But can we devise a programming model that would allow CO...
We propose a mechanism for providing the incentives for reporting truthful feedback in a peer-to-peer system for exchanging services. This mechanism is to complement reputation me...
This paper presents how state consistency among distributed control nodes is maintained in the presence of faults. We analyze a fault tolerant semi-synchronous architecture concep...
— Search and rescue of people in emergency situations, e.g. lost hikers, stranded climbers, or injured skiers has been difficult due to lack of information about their location ...