—Dynamic software updating research efforts have mostly been focused on updating application code and in-memory state. As more and more applications use embedded databases for st...
A raw object is partially initialized, with only some fields set to legal values. It may violate its object invariants, such as that a given field is non-null. Programs often ma...
—We analyze a comprehensive model for multi-class job scheduling accounting for user abandonment, with the objective of minimizing the total discounted or time-average sum of lin...
—Localizability of network or node is an important subproblem in sensor localization. While rigidity theory plays an important role in identifying several localizability conditio...
—WiFi access points that provide Internet access to users have been steadily increasing in urban areas. Different access points differ from one another in terms of services that ...