Shannon's Coding Theorem shows that in order to reliably transmit a message of T bits over a noisy communication channel, only a constant slowdown factor is necessary in the ...
Client disks ure a valuable resource that ure not adequately exploited by current client-server ciatabasesystems.In this papeG we propose the use of client disksfor caching databa...
Michael J. Franklin, Michael J. Carey, Miron Livny
The designation “fault tolerant software” has been used for techniques ranging from roll-back and retry to N-version programming, from data mirroring to functional redundancy....
We propose a new rendering technique that produces 3-D images with enhanced visual comprehensibility. Shape features can be readily understood if certain geometric properties are ...
From a multiagent viewpoint, a workflow is a dynamic set of tasks performed by a set of agents to reach a shared goal. We show herein that commitments among agents can be used to ...