While medium- and large-sized computing centers have increasingly relied on clusters of commodity PC hardware to provide cost-effective capacity and capability, it is not clear th...
Ron Sass, William V. Kritikos, Andrew G. Schmidt, ...
The dynamics of peer participation, or churn, are an inherent property of Peer-to-Peer (P2P) systems and critical for design and evaluation. Accurately characterizing churn requir...
The emergence of large-scale freeform shapes in architecture poses big challenges to the fabrication of such structures. A key problem is the approximation of the design surface b...
Michael Eigensatz, Martin Kilian, Alexander Schift...
Although virtual organizations and networks have been studied for quite some time, there is still need for research regarding their inner dynamics and the mechanisms of leadership...
The increased fluidity and agility of organizations demand the smooth mediation of information technology (IT) between user and task. As rigid hierarchies are giving way to open, ...