I/O consolidation is a growing trend in production environments due to the increasing complexity in tuning and managing storage systems. A consequence of this trend is the need to...
Jianyong Zhang, Anand Sivasubramaniam, Alma Riska,...
Classical distributed database systems monolithically offer distribution transparency and higher performance. This is made possible by making data available and closer to the appl...
One large and quite interesting family of MAS applications is characterized (1) by their large scale in terms of number of agents and physical distribution, (2) by their very dynam...
The Virtual Math Teams (VMT) project investigates the innovative use of online collaborative environments to support effective mathematical problem-solving by small groups of lear...
Crash and omission failures are common in service providers: a disk can break down or a link can fail anytime. In addition, the probability of a node failure increases with the num...