Information about online presence allows participants of instant messaging (IM) systems to determine whether their prospective communication partners will be able to answer their ...
Karsten Loesing, Markus Dorsch, Martin Grote, Knut...
Distributed Hash Tables (DHTs) bring the promise of increased availability of data to wide-area systems, under the assumption of uniform request load. However, they don't int...
ions and concepts that let applications access and share resources and services across distributed, wide area networks, while providing common security semantics, distributed resou...
Ian T. Foster, Carl Kesselman, Jeffrey M. Nick, St...
We develop new methods to statically bound the resources needed for the execution of systems of concurrent, interactive threads. Our study is concerned with a synchronous model of ...
: Parallel database systems aim at providing high throughput for OLTP transactions as well as short response times for complex and data-intensive queries. Shared nothing systems re...