We revisit the peer selection problem of finding the most nearby peer from an initiating node. The metrics to assess the closeness between peers are hopcount and delay, respectivel...
The cancer Biomedical Informatics Grid (caBIG) is revolutionizing the way medical researchers share information and collaborate. A key to caBIG's continued success will be in...
Timeliness in conventional real-time systems is addressed by employing well-known scheduling techniques that guarantee the execution of a number of tasks within certain deadlines. ...
Fault-tolerant services typically make assumptions about the type and maximum number of faults that they can tolerate while providing their correctness guarantees; when such a fau...
Byung-Gon Chun, Petros Maniatis, Scott Shenker, Jo...
Abstract. Definitions of the concepts derived from the goal concept (including functional and nonfunctional goal, hardgoal, and softgoal) used in requirements engineering are discu...