A counting protocol (mod m) consists of shared memory bits - referred to as the counter - and of a procedure for incrementing the counter value by 1 (mod m). The procedure may be ...
Many different parallel programming models, including lightweight processes that communicate with shared memory and heavyweight processes that communicate with messages, have been...
Michael L. Scott, Thomas J. LeBlanc, Brian D. Mars...
This paper presents a decentralized task allocation method that can handle allocation of tasks with time and precedence constraints in a multi-agent setting where not all informat...
Mark Hoogendoorn, Maria L. Gini, Catholijn M. Jonk...
A computer-aided diagnostic (CAD) method of calculating lumen and wall thickness of carotid vessels is presented. The CAD is able to measure the geometry of the lumen and plaque s...
Marco Antonio Gutierrez, Silvia Helena Gelas Lage,...
Within the current Internet, autonomous ISPs implement bilateral agreements, with each ISP establishing agreements that suit its own local objective to maximize its profit. Peerin...
Richard T. B. Ma, Dah-Ming Chiu, John C. S. Lui, V...