Abstract. The vast majority of papers on distributed computing assume that processes are assigned unique identifiers before computation begins. But is this assumption necessary? W...
Abstract. In pay-per-click online advertising systems like Google, Overture, or MSN, advertisers are charged for their ads only when a user clicks on the ad. While these systems ha...
Nicole Immorlica, Kamal Jain, Mohammad Mahdian, Ku...
Abstract. The development of real-time distributed applications requires middleware providing both reliability and performance. Middleware must be adaptable to meet application req...
Abstract. A message sequence chart (MSC) is a standard notation for describing the interaction between communicating objects. It is popular among the designers of communication pro...
Abstract--Leakage power consumption contributes significantly to the overall power dissipation for systems that are manufactured in advanced deep sub-micron technology. Different f...