Systems that store objects at a large number of sites require fault-tolerant and timely garbage collection. A popular technique is to trace each site independently using inter-sit...
Over the last two decades a considerable amount of effort has been put in the development and application of matrix geometric techniques for the analysis of queueing systems of wh...
Boudewijn R. Haverkort, Aad P. A. van Moorsel, Dir...
Fault trees provide a graphical and logical framework for analyzing the reliability of systems. A fault tree provides a conceptually simple modeling framework to represent the sys...
Ragavan Manian, Joanne Bechta Dugan, David Coppit,...
The problem of defending software against tampering by a malicious host is not expected to be solved soon. Rather than trying to defend against the first attack, randomization tri...
Bertrand Anckaert, Mariusz H. Jakubowski, Ramarath...
In image retrieval, most existing approaches that incorporate local features produce high dimensional vectors, which lead to a high computational and data storage cost. Moreover, ...