Abstract—The pervasive computing vision consists in realizing ubiquitous technologies to support the execution of people’s everyday tasks by proactively providing appropriate i...
Replication is a widely used method for achieving high availability in database systems. Due to the nondeterminism inherent in traditional concurrency control schemes, however, sp...
—This article studies the scheduling of critical embedded systems, which consist of a set of communicating periodic tasks with constrained deadlines. Currently, tasks are usually...
Cloud computing carries the promise of providing powerful ls and abstractions that could transform the way IT services are delivered today. In order to establish the readiness of ...
The file system is one of the most critical components of the operating system. Almost all applications running in the operating system require file systems to be available for ...