In this paper we address the problem of global real-time periodic scheduling on heterogeneous multiprocessor platforms. We give a solution based on a constraint satisfaction proble...
Today user-centered information acquisition over collections of complex XML documents is increasingly in demand. To this end, preferences have become an important paradigm enablin...
Abstract. The interest in the area of non-monotonic reasoning and declarative logic programming is growing rapidly after the recent development of a number of Answer Set Programmin...
Let be a finite, ordered alphabet, and consider a string x = x1x2 . . . xn n . A secondary index for x answers alphabet range queries of the form: Given a range [al, ar] , retu...
We study how to efficiently diffuse updates to a large distributed system of data replicas, some of which may exhibit arbitrary (Byzantine) failures. We assume that strictly fewer...