We develop a general theory of the swelling kinetics of polymer gels, with the view that a polymer gel is a two-phase fluid. The model we propose is a free boundary problem and ca...
James P. Keener, Sarthok Sircar, Aaron L. Fogelson
Peer-to-Peer (P2P) systems seek to provide sharing of computational resources, which may be duplicated or versioned over several peers. Duplicate resources (i.e. replicas) are the...
Deise de Brum Saccol, Nina Edelweiss, Renata de Ma...
CT As computing devices are getting smaller, we tend to bring them everywhere. Consequently the operating conditions of the devices are constantly changing (e.g. changing user requ...
Marius Mikalsen, Nearchos Paspallis, Jacqueline Fl...
Mission critical applications and legacy systems may be difficult to revise and rebuild, and yet it is sometimes desirable to retrofit their user interfaces with new collaborative...
Li-Te Cheng, Steven L. Rohall, John F. Patterson, ...
—The advent of globalization has led to the adoption of distributed software development as a common practice. One of its drawbacks -the absence of impromptu meetingsis tackled w...