While closed timelike curves (CTCs) are not known to exist, studying their consequences has led to nontrivial insights in general relativity, quantum information, and other areas....
Little is known about how developers think about design during code modification tasks or how experienced developers' design knowledge helps them work more effectively. We pe...
Thomas D. LaToza, David Garlan, James D. Herbsleb,...
Understanding the self-regulatory mechanisms controlling the spatial and temporal structure of multicellular organisms represents one of the major challenges in molecular biology. ...
Spyware is a significant problem for most computer users. The term “spyware” loosely describes a new class of computer software. This type of software may track user activitie...
Abstract. The concept of unreliable failure detectors for reliable distributed systems was introduced by Chandra and Toueg as a fine-grained means to add weak forms of synchrony i...