A very active field of research of Database Management Systems (DBMS) is concerned with an augmentation of DBMS by rules. Passive rules (constraints) were the first to be investig...
Farsite is a scalable, distributed file system that logically functions as a centralized file server but that is physically implemented on a set of client desktop computers. Farsi...
Over the past decade, system architectures have started on a clear trend towards increased parallelism and heterogeneity, often resulting in speedups of 10x to 100x. Despite numer...
Modeling requires considerable knowledge of the various stages of the simulation process. The modeler needs to know a great deal of the system to be modeled (domain specific knowl...
This paper addresses issues of task clustering-the coalition of several fine grain tasks into single coarser grain tasks called task clusters+md task cluster scheduling on distrib...