: A newly emerging protocol for storage networking, iSCSI [1,2], was recently ratified by the Internet Engineering Task Force [3]. The iSCSI protocol is perceived as a low cost alt...
There has been a great amount of work on query-independent summarization of documents. However, due to the success of Web search engines query-specific document summarization (que...
—Controlling the flow of materials inside job-shops involves several decisions such as the acceptance or rejection of an incoming order, the order’s due date definition, the re...
Control systems are typically designed assuming an ideal behavior of the computing infrastructure where controllers execute. In practice, however, in highly loaded computing syste...
Distributed database applications are a wide use of distributed systems. One of the major advantages of distributed database systems is the potential for achieving high availabili...