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CLUSTER
2004
IEEE
15 years 2 months ago
Rolls: modifying a standard system installer to support user-customizable cluster frontend appliances
The Rocks toolkit [9], [7], [10] uses a graph-based framework to describe the configuration of all node types (termed appliances) that make up a complete cluster. With hundreds of...
Greg Bruno, Mason J. Katz, Federico D. Sacerdoti, ...
ATAL
2006
Springer
15 years 2 months ago
A utility-based sensing and communication model for a glacial sensor network
This paper reports on the development of a utility-based mechanism for managing sensing and communication in cooperative multi-sensor networks. The specific application considered...
Paritosh Padhy, Rajdeep K. Dash, Kirk Martinez, Ni...
ATAL
2006
Springer
15 years 2 months ago
Convergence analysis for collective vocabulary development
We study how decentralized agents can develop a shared vocabulary without global coordination. Answering this question can help us understand the emergence of many communication s...
Jun Wang, Les Gasser, Jim Houk
FLOPS
2006
Springer
15 years 2 months ago
Contracts as Pairs of Projections
Abstract. Assertion-based contracts provide a powerful mechanism for stating invariants at module boundaries and for enforcing them uniformly. In 2002, Findler and Felleisen showed...
Robert Bruce Findler, Matthias Blume
CAISE
2003
Springer
15 years 2 months ago
Time Related Factors of Data Accuracy, Completeness, and Currency in Multi-Channel Information Systems
Multi-channel information systems involve data redundancy, which, in turn, requires the implementation of synchronization mechanisms among overlapping databases. This need for peri...
Cinzia Cappiello, Chiara Francalanci, Barbara Pern...