This paper is concerned with the evaluation of distributed and peer-to-peer information retrieval systems. A new measure is introduced that compares results of a distributed retrie...
Hans Friedrich Witschel, Florian Holz, Gregor Hein...
The usage of mobile devices like cell phones, navigation systems, or laptop computers, is limited by the lifetime of the included batteries. This lifetime depends naturally on the...
Lucia Cloth, Marijn R. Jongerden, Boudewijn R. Hav...
—Ensuring spontaneous ad hoc interoperation in decentralized ubiquitous computing environments is challenging, because of heterogeneous resources and divergent policies. Centrali...
Venkatraman Ramakrishna, Peter L. Reiher, Leonard ...
As the number of processors in today’s high performance computers continues to grow, the mean-time-to-failure of these computers are becoming significantly shorter than the exe...
Zizhong Chen, Graham E. Fagg, Edgar Gabriel, Julie...
This paper presents a new protocol for ensuring sequential consistency in a distributed objects system. The protocol is efficient and simple. In addition to providing a high-level...
Cristian Tapus, Aleksey Nogin, Jason Hickey, Jerom...