The academic field of information systems has developed because organizations use a specialized body of knowledge about information and communications systems. Teaching and resear...
Metacomputing infrastructures couple multiple clusters (or MPPs) via wide-area networks. A major problem in programming parallel applications for such platforms is their hierarchi...
In this paper we propose a novel late join algorithm for distributed applications with a fully replicated architecture (e.g. shared whiteboards). The term `late join algorithm'...
In a de-regulated market the distribution utilities will compete with added value for the customer in addition to the delivery of energy. We describe a system consisting of a colle...
Marginalization threatens basic issues of fairness and equal opportunity for a significant portion of children around the n this extended abstract, we frame the problem of margina...
Juan Pablo Hourcade, Natasha E. Bullock-Rest, Heid...