Distributed Hash Tables (DHTs) bring the promise of increased availability of data to wide-area systems, under the assumption of uniform request load. However, they don't int...
We examine the robustness of critical infrastructure networks in the face of terrorist attack, using a simulation experiment that incorporates link capacity; and an extension of d...
Passing messages through shared memory plays an important role on symmetric multiprocessors and on Clumps. The management of concurrent access to message queues is an important as...
The random seeking in P2P-VoD system requires efficient lookup for "good" suppliers. The main challenge is that good suppliers should meet two requirements: "conten...
The GOODLY language can be used to specify the design of systems built according to the Object Oriented paradigm. It was conceived with the main purpose of facilitating the extrac...
Fernando Brito e Abreu, Luis Ochoa, Miguel Goul&at...