—In distributed computing systems (DCSs) where server nodes can fail permanently with nonzero probability, the system performance can be assessed by means of the service reliabil...
The rise of mobile computing and wireless network technology means that, increasingly, applications must adapt to their environment, in particular network connectivity and resource...
Tom Fitzpatrick, Julian R. Gallop, Gordon S. Blair...
Volunteer Computing (VC) is a paradigm that takes advantage of idle cycles from computing resources donated by volunteers and connected through the Internet to compute large-scale...
Abstract-Predicting sequential execution blocks of a large scale parallel application is an essential part of accurate prediction of the overall performance of the application. Whe...
Gengbin Zheng, Gagan Gupta, Eric J. Bohm, Isaac Do...
Sound is an indispensable element for the simulation of a realistic virtual environment. Therefore, there has been much recent research focused on the simulation of realistic soun...