Passage time densities are useful performance measurements in stochastic systems. With them the modeller can extract probabilistic quality-of-service guarantees such as: the proba...
Jeremy T. Bradley, Stephen T. Gilmore, Nigel Thoma...
Peer-to-peer networks and grids offer promising paradigms for developing efficient distributed systems and applications. Event-based middleware is becoming a core architectural el...
We introduce a new synchronization problem in mobile ad-hoc systems: the Driving Philosophers. In this problem, an unbounded number of driving philosophers (processes) access a rou...
On May 4, 1988 a fire occurred after hours on the 12th floor of the First Interstate Bank building, a 62 story steelframe office tower in Los Angeles California. The sprinkler sys...
Cooperative robotic systems provide design and implementation challenges that are not easy to solve. This paper describes a parallel implementation for evolving cooperative roboti...