Extracting geographical information from various web sources is likely to be important for a variety of applications. One such use for this information is to enable the study of v...
We present a deadlock avoidance algorithm for distributed systems that guarantees liveness. Deadlock avoidance in distributed systems is a hard problem and general solutions are c...
Abstract. Autonomic computing networks manage multiple tasks over a distributed network of resources. In this paper, we view an autonomic computing system as a network of queues, w...
Abstract An infrastructure is currently being deployed for delivering multimedia services using IP endto-end. Mobile devices and application resources, because of their computing c...
The idle computers on a local area, campus area, or even wide area network represent a significant computational resource--one that is, however, also unreliable, heterogeneous, an...