This paper addresses a simple, yet fundamental question in the design of peer-to-peer systems: What does it mean when we say “availability” and how does this understanding imp...
Ranjita Bhagwan, Stefan Savage, Geoffrey M. Voelke...
Abstract—Cache pre-filling is emerging as a new concept for increasing the availability of popular web items in cache servers. According to this concept, web items are sent by a...
Organizational processes often take place over long periods of time and require intermittent attention. Remembering and reasoning about upcoming process tasks is important, but no...
Robert Farrell, Hina Shah, Thomas Erickson, Wendy ...
We consider a networking subsystem for message–passing clusters that uses two unidirectional queues for data transfers between the network interface card (NIC) and the lower prot...
This work presents a constructive approach to the process of fixing a sequence of meetings between teachers and students in a prefixed period of time, satisfying a set of constrain...
Geraldo Ribeiro Filho, Luiz Antonio Nogueira Loren...