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SIGSOFT
2004
ACM
16 years 7 months ago
Making embedded software reuse practical and safe
Reuse of application software has been limited and sometimes has led to accidents. This paper suggests some requirements for successful and safe application software reuse and dem...
Nancy G. Leveson, Kathryn Anne Weiss
SODA
2010
ACM
173views Algorithms» more  SODA 2010»
16 years 4 months ago
Distributed Agreement with Optimal Communication Complexity
We consider the problem of fault-tolerant agreement in a crash-prone synchronous system. We present a new randomized consensus algorithm that achieves optimal communication effici...
Seth Gilbert, Dariusz Kowalski
GLOBECOM
2009
IEEE
16 years 1 months ago
A Fresh Look at Multicanonical Monte Carlo from a Telecom Perspective
—The Multicanonical Monte Carlo (MMC) technique is a new form of adaptive importance sampling (IS). Thanks to its blind adaptation algorithm, it does not require an in-depth syst...
Alberto Bononi, Leslie A. Rusch, Amirhossein Ghazi...
ICEIS
2009
IEEE
16 years 1 months ago
Vectorizing Instance-Based Integration Processes
Abstract. The inefficiency of integration processes—as an abstraction of workflow-based integration tasks—is often reasoned by low resource utilization and significant waiti...
Matthias Böhm, Dirk Habich, Steffen Preissler...
CDC
2008
IEEE
107views Control Systems» more  CDC 2008»
16 years 1 months ago
Resource pooling for optimal evacuation of a large building
— This paper is concerned with modeling, analysis and optimization/control of occupancy evolution in a large building. The main concern is efficient evacuation of a building in ...
Kun Deng, Wei Chen, Prashant G. Mehta, Sean P. Mey...