We consider a multi-channel opportunistic communication system where the states of these channels evolve as independent and statistically identical Markov chains (the Gilbert-Elli...
The debate on “openness” has tended to focus on standard setting, software copyrights, patent policy and collaborative innovation models – large issues that evoke heated deb...
Sacha Wunsch-Vincent, Taylor Reynolds, Andrew Wyck...
Abstract. Transactional memory systems trade ease of programming with runtime performance losses in handling transactions. This paper focuses on starvation effects that show up in ...
A grid has to provide strong incentive for participating sites to join and stay in it. Participating sites are concerned with the performance improvement brought by the gird for th...
Separation of duties (SoD) is a key security requirement for many business and information systems. Role Based Access Controls (RBAC) is a relatively new paradigm for protecting i...
David W. Chadwick, Wensheng Xu, Sassa Otenko, Roma...