: SAN-level caching can manage caching within a global view so that global hot data can be identified and cached. However, two problems may be encountered in the existing SAN-level...
Skyline queries have attracted considerable attention over the last few years, mainly due to their ability to return interesting objects without the need for user-defined scoring f...
Security is a fundamental precondition for the acceptance of mobile agent systems. In this paper we discuss protocols to improve agent security by distributing critical data and op...
We present a new parallel repartitioning algorithm for adaptive finite-element meshes that significantly reduces the amount of data that needs to move between processors in orde...
In this paper, we consider the problem of modeling machine availability in enterprise-area and wide-area distributed computing settings. Using availability data gathered from three...