Modern digital libraries require user-friendly and yet responsive access to the rapidly growing, heterogeneous, and distributed collection of information sources. However, the inc...
Abstract. We present a formalism for modeling replication in a distributed system with concurrent users sharing information. It is based on actions, which represent operations requ...
Marc Shapiro, Karthikeyan Bhargavan, Nishith Krish...
This paper describes a Web-services-based system which we have developed to enable organizations to semi-automatically preserve their digital collections by dynamically discoverin...
Open MASs can be extremely dynamic due to heterogeneous agents that migrate among them to obtain resources or services not found locally. In order to prevent malicious actions and...
Leakage energy consumption is an increasing concern in current and future CMOS technologygenerations. Procrastination scheduling, where task execution can be delayed to maximize t...