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IFIP
2004
Springer
16 years 1 days ago
Nested Commits for Mobile Calculi: Extending Join
In global computing applications the availability of a mechanism for some form of committed choice can be useful, and sometimes necessary. It can conveniently handle, e.g., distrib...
Roberto Bruni, Hernán C. Melgratti, Ugo Mon...
CVPR
2003
IEEE
15 years 12 months ago
Deformable Pedal Curves with Application to Face Contour Extraction
Pedal curves are the loci of the feet of perpendiculars to the tangents of a fixed curve to a fixed point called the pedal point. By varying the location of the pedal point, def...
Fuzhen Huang, Jianbo Su
HUMAN
2003
Springer
15 years 12 months ago
Peer-to-Peer Money: Free Currency over the Internet
This paper proposes a resilient, alternative monetary system on the Internet called i-WAT, based on WAT System[1] which uses a form of promissory note as the medium of exchanging g...
Kenji Saito
ICDCSW
2002
IEEE
15 years 11 months ago
Efficient Massive Sharing of Content among Peers
In this paper we focus on the design of high performance peer-to-peer content sharing systems. In particular, our goal is to achieve global load balancing and short user-request r...
Peter Triantafillou, Chryssani Xiruhaki, Manolis K...
PVM
1999
Springer
15 years 11 months ago
Building MPI for Multi-Programming Systems Using Implicit Information
Abstract. With the growing importance of fast system area networks in the parallel community, it is becoming common for message passing programs to run in multi-programming environ...
Frederick C. Wong, Andrea C. Arpaci-Dusseau, David...