Many proposals for electronic payment systems (EPS) have been made but the great majority have failed to achieve widespread adoption. The reasons why some proposals succeed and ot...
Current weak consistency semantics provide worst-case guarantees to clients. These guarantees fail to adequately describe systems that provide varying levels of consistency in the...
Amitanand S. Aiyer, Eric Anderson, Xiaozhou Li, Me...
The use of component models such as Enterprise Java Beans and the CORBA Component Model (CCM) in application development is expanding rapidly. Even in real-time safety/mission-cri...
John Hatcliff, Xianghua Deng, Matthew B. Dwyer, Ge...
Abstract. Transactional memory (TM) promises to simplify construction of parallel applications by allowing programmers to reason about interactions between concurrently executing c...
Haris Volos, Adam Welc, Ali-Reza Adl-Tabatabai, Ta...
Power aware computing has become popular recently and many techniques have been proposed to manage the energy consumption for traditional real-time applications. We have previousl...
Dakai Zhu, Nevine AbouGhazaleh, Daniel Mossé...