The InteGrade project is an on-going project with the participation of several research groups in Brazil. It is an opportunistic grid middleware that intends to exploit the idle t...
System developments and research on parallel query processing have concentrated either on "Shared Everything" or "Shared Nothing" architectures so far. While t...
SARC merges cache controller and network interface functions by relying on a single hardware primitive: each access checks the tag and the state of the addressed line for possible...
Group behaviors, e.g. birds flocking, are widely used in virtual reality, computer games, robotics and artificial life. While many methods to simulate group behaviors have been pr...
Abstract. In this paper we describe a novel concept for reliability analysis of communication architectures in safety-critical systems. This concept has been motivated by applicati...