The increase in power and connectivity of computers has enabled a growth in network games, with many games having numerous servers to which a player can connect. The game server s...
Steven Gargolinski, Christopher St. Pierre, Mark C...
The previous research on cluster-based servers has focused on homogeneous systems. However, real-life clusters are almost invariably heterogeneous in terms of the performance, cap...
Taliver Heath, Bruno Diniz, Enrique V. Carrera, Wa...
One of the most powerful features of SQL is the use of nested queries. Most research work on the optimization of nested queries focuses on aggregate subqueries. However, the solut...
A voting protocol for decision-making in virtual organizations is presented. In an agent-based virtual organization the functions of formation, management and dissolution of the o...
Jeremy V. Pitt, Lloyd Kamara, Marek J. Sergot, Ale...
Abstract. The original definition of P-systems calls for rules to be applied in a maximally parallel fashion. However, in some cases a sequential model may be a more reasonable as...
Oscar H. Ibarra, Sara Woodworth, Hsu-Chun Yen, Zhe...