: We introduce an extended model for view-centric reasoning, EVCR, that provides more nsive and flexible abstractions for representing actual concurrency. The theory of Communicati...
We provide several non-approximability results for deterministic scheduling problems whose objective is to minimize the total job completion time. Unless P = NP, none of the probl...
Han Hoogeveen, Petra Schuurman, Gerhard J. Woeging...
As high-speed networks make it easier to use distributed resources, it becomes increasingly common that applications and their data are not colocated. Users have traditionally add...
Ian T. Foster, David Kohr, Rakesh Krishnaiyer, Jac...
Service oriented computing is an emerging paradigm for programming distributed applications based on services. Services are simple software elements that supply their functionalit...
Abstract--In data communication networks, packets that arrive at the receiving host may be disordered for reasons such as retransmission of dropped packets or multi-path routing. R...