Most research on QoS-aware computing considers systems where code is generally partitioned into separately schedulable tasks with associated timing constraints. In sharp contrast ...
Ronghua Zhang, Tarek F. Abdelzaher, John A. Stanko...
Identity Management plays a crucial role in many application contexts, including e-governments, e-commerce, business intelligence, investigation, and homeland security. The variet...
In this paper we analyze the requirements access control mechanisms must fulfill in the context of group communication and define a framework for supporting fine-grained access co...
Thread-level speculation is a technique that enables parallel execution of sequential applications on a multiprocessor. This paper describes the complete implementation of the sup...
Real-world data -- especially when generated by distributed measurement infrastructures such as sensor networks -- tends to be incomplete, imprecise, and erroneous, making it impo...