Agents are systems capable of perceiving their environment through sensors, reasoning about their sensory input using some characteristic reasoning process and acting in their env...
In this paper we define the Weak Mutual Exclusion (WME) problem. Analogously to classical Distributed Mutual Exclusion (DME), WME serializes the accesses to a shared resource. Di...
The widespread deployment of inexpensive communications technology, computational resources in the networking infrastructure, and network-enabled end devices poses an interesting ...
Steven E. Czerwinski, Ben Y. Zhao, Todd D. Hodes, ...
The growth in the number of generally available, distributed, heterogeneous computing systems places increasing importance on the development of user-friendly tools that enable ap...
Richard L. Graham, Galen M. Shipman, Brian Barrett...
In Ubiquitous computing environment the mobile devices such as PDAs necessarily connect to remote storage servers. We present an iSCSI caching system that localizes iSCSI target to...