This paper addresses a novel coordination problem for distributed agents in a discrete-event setting. We introduce and study a predicate coordination problem as the problem of dist...
The lack of end-to-end quality of service support in the current Internet has caused significant difficulties to ensuring playback continuity in video streaming applications. This...
L. S. Lam, Jack Y. B. Lee, Soung C. Liew, Wei Wang
Non-rectangular (rectilinear) shape occurs very often in deep submicron floorplanning. Most previous algorithms are designed to handle only convex rectilinear blocks. However, han...
Scientific computing on massively parallel computers presents unique challenges to component-based software engineering (CBSE). While CBSE is at least as enabling for scientific co...
Boyana Norris, Jaideep Ray, Robert C. Armstrong, L...
We address the problem of sorting in the presence of faults that may arbitrarily corrupt memory locations, and investigate the impact of memory faults both on the correctness and ...