One of the challenges facing the on-line gaming community is the delivery of new content to players. While the initial distribution of a game is typically done via large media for...
Utility provisioning, Grid resource management, instant copy kiosks, and network transfers provide an exciting new paradigm for data warehouse functions. Grid technologies are fas...
In this paper, we compare two scheduling procedures designed to minimize setup costs for a make-to-order electronics manufacturing. While setup costs are important, quick response...
Fault-tolerant (FT) distributed protocols (such as group membership, consensus, etc.) represent fundamental building blocks for many practical systems, e.g., the Google File System...
—We consider a distributed shuffling algorithm for sharing data in a distributed network. Nodes executing the algorithm periodically contact each other and exchange data. The be...